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Chair Hernandez says hearings are coming on contamination concerns in Sanilac County, Madison Heights
RELEASE|January 4, 2020

Rep. Shane Hernandez of Port Huron – chair of the state House Appropriations Committee — tonight issued the following statement after media reports regarding possible contamination concerns on a parcel of land in Sanilac County’s Marion Township. The site is being investigated by health officials and reportedly has possible ownership connections to an I-696 site in Madison Heights with contamination from an Electro-Plating Services facility:

“I am outraged by this situation. First we hear about the green ooze on I-696, and now we see this alarming situation in Sanilac County. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning up the environment and protecting health. Citizens demand that their tax dollars are spent effectively to protect public health, and they expect the state to respond quickly and effectively any time public health may be jeopardized. It is my intent to ensure accountability so that happens.

“As part of the process, the state House Appropriations Committee will schedule hearings into this issue. These hearings will focus on what state environmental quality officials knew about possible contamination, when they knew about it, and what was done in response.”

 

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