BREAKING NEWS:
(MARION TOWNSHIP) – State and federal officials found no hazardous materials at the site of a Sanilac County home owned by the man whose Madison Heights business is believed to be the source of green ooze leaking onto Interstate 696.
A state conservation officer and a representative from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday visited Gary Sayers’ Marion Township property.
Officials said while there was an increase of scrap materials and containers from a previous 2017 visit, a preliminary investigation found no hazardous materials “nor visual evidence of a dump that would have resulted in discolored soil or vegetation.
Officials walked the 23-acre property during the Monday site visit, but did not go inside the home, according to Sanilac County Emergency Management Director Todd Hillman, who accompanied state and federal officials.
Sayers turned himself in over the weekend and is now serving a federal prison sentence in West Virginia for illegal handling of hazardous waste, and he has been ordered to repay the federal government $1.5 million for the EPA’s initial 2017 cleanup of the Madison Heights site.
