Source: http://www.mlive.com, January 25, 2014
By: John S. Hausman
The former Zephyr Oil site is finally on the verge of getting cleaned up after decades of petroleum pollution followed by more decades of snail’s-pace contaminant control.
It’s been a long time coming.
A vital first step – long needed, never attempted – has finally been done in the last two years: Mapping the worst hot spots of soil and groundwater contamination under the 70-acre site, and of contaminated sediment below wetlands and surface water in the vicinity. That mapping has cleared the way for a targeted, cost-effective cleanup of both problems.  Read more.