Aerial photos taken three separate months this year all show an inky black stream more than a mile in length gushing from the company's outfall No. 009 directly into the Detroit River.
http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/071705/loc_20050717004.shtml
Environmental agencies face this dilemma frequently: should they grant a new permit to a facility breaking the law, with the promise that the new law will bring the facility back within the law? In downriver Detroit that's been the rationale for allowing at least one landfill to keep hauling in trash -- to raise the revenue to correct the problem. It's not an easy call. But no one is served by failing to call a violation a violation.
Posted by Dave at July 17, 2005 03:51 PM