Michigan officials closed portions of a highway over the weekend after a hazardous green liquid was found oozing onto the roadway.
December 22, 2019, 6:16 PMCatch up on the developing stories making headlines.greenish-yellow liquid was found oozing onto the roadway from a barrier.
Michigan State Police troopers were asked to block off the right lane of Interstate 696 in Madison Heights, about 13 mile north of Detroit, on Friday afternoon so the local fire department could clean up the spill. Officials later discovered that a commercial business nearby had been leaking the chemical hexavelent chromium, which ran from the basement of the building into the ground and exited through the drain that empties onto the highway, police said.
Once the substance came up through the drain, it froze into a yellow blob, police said, citing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The metal is known to cause cancer and targets the respiratory system, kidneys, liver, skin and eyes, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's
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