Mysterious green ooze on Michigan highway came from waste site whose owner is in prison

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

DETROIT – The mysterious, greenish-yellow liquid that ran onto a Michigan highway Friday came from a closed electroplating business whose owner is serving a year in federal prison for operating an unlicensed hazardous waste storage facility.

Lanes will remain closed until Monday after the fluid gushed from the walls of I-696 about a half mile from the Oakland-Macomb county line at Dequindre, according to Madison Heights Fire Department Capt. Kevin Powers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was called to investigate and determined the liquid likely was groundwater contaminated with hexavalent chromium, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE).

EGLE said in a statement that the seepage was directly in line with Electro-Plating Services. Crews spent Friday night vacuuming the sewers and eventually started on the basement at Electro-Plating Services, where green liquid was found in the basement pit.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mysterious-green-ooze-on-michigan-highway-came-from-waste-site-whose-owner-is-in-prison/ar-BBYflDH?li=BBnbcA1

[CanonRay]

1. That's the chemical

that was at the center of the Erin Brockovich suit against PG&E

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. He's serving a YEAR? No way is that long enough.