On
Friday, March 29, 2019 Hamtramck
and Detroit community
organizations joined hands with
state, county and local
officials to march in protest of
the proposed expansion of
Idaho-based U.S. Ecology, Inc.
along the Hamtramck/Detroit
border. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell
Us Detroit)
Detroit-Hamtramck
community
march in
protest
of the
proposed
expansion
of the
US
Ecology
Georgia
St.
plant
By
Aaron
Best
Tell Us
Detroit
DETROIT
- On
Friday,
March
29, 2019
Hamtramck
and
Detroit
community
organizations
joined
hands
with
state,
county
and
local
officials
to march
in
protest
of the
proposed
expansion
of
Idaho-based
U.S.
Ecology,
Inc.
along
the
Hamtramck/Detroit
border.
The
protest
march
began at
the
Masjid
Mu'ath
Bin
Jabil
Mosque
located
at the
corner
of
Miller
St and
Dorothy
St. and
ended
about a
half
mile in
front of
the
company's
waste
processing
plant on
Georgia
Street.
The
company
is
already
engaged
in waste
dumping,
storage,
and
toxic
chemicals
processing
at three
different
sites
across
Wayne
county,
involving
deadly
carcinogenic
and
radioactive
waste.
Now they
wish to
expand
their
property
footprint
adjacent
to a
residential
area
along
the
Hamtramck/Detroit
border.
According
to
community
activist
Abraham
Aiyash,
some of
the most
toxic
chemicals
used in
industry
are
treated
and
temporarily
held at
the US
Ecology
plant on
that
site,
and
plans to
expand
it
tenfold
have
raised
the fears of
neighbors
and
environmentalists.
The
Coalition
to
Oppose
the
Expansion
of US
Ecology
said on
a public
statement,
"There
are
hundreds
of
statements
from
Detroit
and
Hamtramck
mothers
and
grandmothers
concerned
about
protecting
the
health
of the
children
and the
elderly
who have
lived in
the area
for
decades,
to a
wounded
veteran
from
Operation
Iraqi
Freedom
demanding
to know
why no
health
impact
study
has been
done, to
many
others
asking
why this
factory
was
built in
the
neighborhood
to begin
with and
demanding
it be
shut
down
altogether."
The
Detroit
facility
has
operated
for over
40 years
and is
in the
process
of
renewing
its
permit,
which
occurs
every 10
years
and
enables
modifications
to be
made in
support
of
possible
customer
needs. A
spokesman
for US
Ecology
in
Michigan
said the
changes
would
"allow
us to
better
serve
our
customers,
including
retailers,
local
manufacturers
and
industry".
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