Politics & Government
EPA Back to St. Clair Shores for More Cleanup in 2017
Contaminants found in 2001; $4 million project done in 2015; agency will work with residents in 2017.
(Originally posted Dec. 9, 2016) ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was in St. Clair Shores recently to update city officials on the$4 million cleanup on contaminated soil found in the 10 Mile Drain System in 2001. The EPA worked on the project for about six months in 2015, but is not complete, the St. Clair Shores Sentinel reported.
Marie Mitchell, who lives in the affected area, said at a Nov. 17 meeting that contamination was removed from her back yard, but she wants the EPA to test it again to make sure it's still safe and free of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
It's unclear exactly how the soil became contaminated, but the EPA suspects the PCBs leached into the soil from an auto or mechanical shop and got into the catch basin and traveled down the 10 Mile Drain.
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Carol Hefferan Tracy, a geologist with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, said there's "still a lot to do out there."
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