Posted on 12/22/2019 8:15:08 AM PST by Olog-hai
A mysterious greenish liquid that forced lane closures after it seeped onto a Michigan interstate Friday allegedly came from a closed electroplating business whose owner is currently serving a year in federal prison for operating an unlicensed hazardous waste storage facility.
Federal agencies had been called to investigate the strange oozing liquid pouring onto I-696 in Madison Heights — a suburb of Detroit — which they found to be the chemical hexavalent chromium, Michigan State Police said on Twitter on Saturday. […]
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) said in a statement that crews had spent Friday night vacuuming the sewers and basement of Electro-Plating Services, where the green liquid was found. […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is one of the valence states of the element chromium, which is usually produced by an industrial process. They said it is known to cause cancer and can be used “as pigments in dyes paints, inks, and plastics” or as “an anticorrosive agent added to paints primers or other surface coatings.” …
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It’s gone beyond stupid. I have a Mercedes SLK350 (two seat convertible) that doesn’t exactly have the softest suspension. I stopped driving it for about 1.5 years because the roads were that bad. The freeways had “repairs” across all three lanes where there “repair” was about two inches higher than the rest of the road. With about a dozen of them within a mile stretch. Hitting them at 70mph went right up your spine. How is that allowed? It only takes an ounce of standards to not pay somebody if they can’t make a level/flat repair.
I noticed just this month that these had been fixed - but they should never have become that way in the first place. ...let me guess, we paid twice too!
10 years at hard labor would discourage folks like that.
We get reverse speed bump “repairs” this way, your car noses down into the depression and then bounces back out.
Often bending rims.
Same lack of quality.
It’s a surprise when you come across a proper repair.
Might shock me into the grave if it happens often enough.
Even Trump mentioned it at the Battle Creek rally. Lots of potholes. The roads are horrible in Michigan. They keep saying they need more money to fix them, but they manage to fill only so many potholes. This has been going ion for a decade or more. Running joke in Michigan.
They pretty much suck in west Michigan. Plus they completed a new highway south of Grand Rapids, huge expensive project and now they discover they used a bad formula on the concrete it all needs to be redone. Michigan also has high load limits for semis and they cause repetitive damage.
Hexavalent chromium is yellow, trivalent chromium is green.
My guess is someone was trying to do some onsite, illegal treatment.
Shades of Erin Brockovitch.
Oh, kind of like our governor in NY insisting on a toll increase “to pay for road maintenance” and -surprise!- the money vanished so now we “must raise taxes”.
Exactly!
“Shades of Erin Brockovitch.”
AND, Julia Roberts!
Great movie.
Clinton’s trail.
Gojira wakes to conquer a corrupt world.
They’d rather litigate for years, trying to force a company to pay an excessive fine,
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Change litigate to harass and fine to extortion and you have correctly described
JESSE JACKSON and his minions & the ‘Rainbow Coalition’.
.the roads here do suck but they’re ALWAYS under construction. I can barely go anywhere without dealing with lane closures causing congestion.
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Believe that the Interstate System was once referred to as the largest ‘welfare’ project since the depression.
It surely is the ‘gift that keeps giving’ with the Fed footing most of the bill.
I think the ‘design’ was it would NEVER end.
All that and I still think the best thing that happened for the motoring public since sliced bread and night baseball combined.
Of course Ike did not envision it as a commuter nightmare, ‘they’ keep restricting the BIG TRUCKS and - in reality - if not for the ‘big trucks’ & Military vehicles it wouldn’t have happened.
“Auuugh!”
State bureaucracy metastasis and cross pollination.
“Let’s see what twist we can put on this.”
I80 through Pennsylvania, it was under construction fourth four years ago, it’s still under construction.
It will be under construction when I’m long in my grave.
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