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Hamilton Reef
04-05-2004, 11:15 AM
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OIL SPILL STANDOFF: Agencies clash, send quest for justice up creek

Two years after the largest oil spill in modern Great Lakes history, investigators are at odds over crucial facts, creating a stalemate that has stuck taxpayers with a $10 million-plus bill, an unpunished polluter and the possibility that a spill that size could happen again.
The April 2002 spill spread an estimated 255,000-gallon mixture of lube oil and diesel fuel in the Rouge River. From there, it floated downstream into the Detroit River and Lake Erie.

http://www.freep.com/news/mich/oil5_20040405.htm

Map of 2002 oil spill cleanup and damage
http://www.freep.com/pdf/2004/04/05/oilspill.pdf

EFFECTS OF THE SPILL: Rivers' polluted past resurfaces
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/oside5_20040405.htm




double trouble
04-05-2004, 12:15 PM
any of you that think that this spill did not affect all of us look at the lousy catch rates for the trenton channel last year and 2002. it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that the fishery suffered from the oil spill. GREAT JOB D.E.Q. derilicts at every opportunity. Dan