[CPEO-BIF] "Oakland County [Michigan] officials close Franklin Village Plaza due to tank of unknown chemicals"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oakland County officials close Franklin Village Plaza due to tank of unknown chemicals
Closure remains in effect

By Derick Hutchinson
Click on Detroit (MI)
March 6, 2018

FRANKLIN, Mich. - The Oakland County Health Division closed the Franklin VillagePlaza after a tank of unknown chemicals was found in the crawl space of a building.

...

"The tank was discovered over the weekend while the MDEQ began to remediate the health risks of a vapor intrusion involving the chemicals Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Tetrachloroethylene (PCE). TCE and PCE are used in dry cleaning and metal degreasing and are likely present due to a previous dry cleaner and gas station that were on the property in the 1950s - 1970s. Please note, the current dry cleaner located in the plaza is neither responsible for this vapor intrusion nor do they conduct dry cleaning or store chemicals on site."

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/oakland-county-officials-close-franklin-village-plaza-due-to-tank-of-unknown-chemicals

--

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

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org