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Agencies Say No Excessive Radioactivity Found in Detroit River After Storage Site Collapse, Elected
Agencies Say No Excessive Radioactivity Found in Detroit River After Storage Site Collapse, Elected Officials Hosting Meeting Todayby Steve Neavling
State and federal elected leaders, along with environmental activists, are hosting a meeting Thursday for Detroit residents potentially impacted by a long-contaminated riverbank that collapsed into the Detroit River on Thanksgiving Eve.
The idea is to get more answers and provide “a solutions-oriented path forward.”
The public was unaware of the potential contamination until the Windsor Star in Canada revealed a potential uranium spill last week at the former Revere Copper site – about eight days after the collapse of the riverfront storage site in southwest Detroit.
For decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listed the site as contaminated because of uranium and other dangerous chemicals stored at the site next to Historic Fort Wayne and leased by Detroit Bulk Storage.
Read more: https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/12/12/agencies-say-no-excessive-radioactivity-found-in-detroit-river-after-storage-site-collapse-elected-officials-hosting-meeting-today