Proof That Poison Dust Is Blowing Around Metro Detroit

We know now that poisoned dirt has been dumped into demo holes in Detroit and is blowing over daycare centers in Southfield. Where’s our proof?

Charlie LeDuff was told about a massive 2021 environmental report prepared ahead of the city’s sale of the 100-acre Northland site to a private developer.

Southfield officials repeatedly denied they’d ever seen the report. The state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy denied it, too.

But he found it. All 1,000 pages of it. According to the report, there were four mammoth piles of toxic dirt at the site in 2021 covering 30 acres and standing 50 feet tall.

Here is the report, broken up into three chunks, for those who want to dig deeper.