ahknaten wrote on Aug 31, 2010 3:03 PM:" why is it… that a small spill like this, gets so much attention? but you get a spill on the huron river, in ann arbor… and no one seems to care? i just don’t get it. feds investigating? come on.. we probably had a bigger spill here, and i don’t remember hearing about the feds investigating this one?"Swayze said that any findings of illegal dumping or improper disposal of hazardous waste would fall under the federal government’s jurisdiction."Really? come to ann arbor and no one was charged here. why bother charging anyone? oh wait… this is just like ann arbor… unknown source, unknown cause… no evident health or enivornmental hazard. yet, i presume this is the same as ann arbor, where it covered the river for hours, tests incidated petroleum, mineral oils and phosphophoric acid. for whomever gets charged in saline, look at the example that was set in ann arbor — no one was charged or fined for littering. oh… and if you want to see photos of the spill that happened here, and flowed from the UofM hospital area to gallup park… it took multiple hazmat teams, failed booms, not enough equipment, a few days to clean up, no notice of evident public health/environment risk… etc… just follow the green tree city’s example of not charging anyone, not finding the cause, etc etc… here are the photos of the spill in ann arbor. huronriverspill.com/Photos.php "

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