9/18/14 - The Green Oak Township Supervisor will testify at a hearing by the Liquor Control Commission next week on a pending state regulatory action against a former township employer. Liquid Manufacturing was a township business engaged in making energy drinks, fruit-flavored vodkas and other beverages until earlier this year when they closed their facility on Whitmore Lake Road. Supervisor Mark St. Charles tells WHMI that he has been subpoenaed by the state to appear at a hearing Monday before an administrative law judge in Pittsfield Township on Liquid Manufacturingâs operation. St. Charles says he will testify as to specific allegations against the company, including non-compliance with the township sewer ordinance, the Michigan Building Code and the International Fire Code, along with any other questions by the administrative law judge. The assets of the company were auctioned off in May after the building was foreclosed on in February and auctioned off for $3.25 million. Thatâs when Liquid Manufacturing closed its doors and laid off its workforce. Liquid Manufacturing opened in the township in 2003 and expanded operations over the next nine years, adding production of energy drinks and shots plus pouched, frozen alcoholic beverages. The business also produced beer, wine, and fruit-flavored vodkas. It got into trouble with the township when the byproduct of the liquor manufacturing process disrupted and clogged the township sewage treatment plant at Hidden Lake. At one time, the company produced more than half of the discharge that entered the Green Oak wastewater treatment system. (TT)
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