… “We know objectively there is contamination in the soil,” said Detroit Windsor Truck Ferry president Gregg Ward. “We know that soil is being eroded into the Detroit River every minute as the river water rushes against the soil.”
The former Revere Copper and Brass site on the Detroit riverfront has been listed for decades as a contaminated site due to its use of uranium and other dangerous chemicals in the 40′s during the race to build the worlds first atomic bomb.
“They found all these chemicals in the soil. We know that it is there. It’s not someone’s memory,” Ward said. “That’s objective material and all that’s in the river right now and more of it is going into the river as the sink hole progresses.” …