2018 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 07:33:22 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] TCE vapor evacuations from Detroit, Michigan pre-school
 
State DEQ at first murky on number of vapor evacuees

by Michael Gerstein
Detroit News (MI)
February 7, 2018 

Lansing - A state environmental official initially was vague about the number of people relocated from a Detroit site for exposure to toxic fumes, claiming “several” people were vacated from the preschool center.

The lack of specifics prompted The Detroit News to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the details on all evacuations from sites around Michigan. The document request revealed that nearly 280 people in three cities were evacuated or relocated for exposure to potentially cancerous fumes, including more than 220 from the former Vistas Nuevas Head Start location in Detroit in October 2016.

The common thread in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Sturgis are long-abandoned industrial or commercial sites that have caused health concerns in their surrounding areas. The documents and subsequent interviews have brought the issues into sharper focus.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/07/deq-murky-number-evapor-evacuees/110212934/

See also http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/02/07/toxic-vapors-michigan-hundreds-evacuation/110212116/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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