Melvindale Sludge

[softailrider]

It’s been a week and they still don’t know what this stuff is or where it’s coming from? If this shit was leaching out of the ground in Downtown Royal Oak or Birmingham, I would bet they would have a handle on it by now.

[O3H]

Well Royal Oak most definitely doesn't have a sewage treatment plant. Neither does Clawson, Berkley, Oak Park, Madison Heights and many others. Warren is one of the few that actually processes it's own.

[Honky Tonk]

And for the rest of us that aren't psychic....

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/loca...wer-on-shaefer

[Jimaz]

It looks like soap suds. Maybe it's from a prankster.

[Bham1982]

Melvindale Sludge would be a cool band name.

[Dumpling]

Today some city workers were assembling something with
wire mesh and straw at the location [[drove past on way to
work, not part of that work crew); there is an ancient sewer
opening in the side of the hill. Never noticed it before.

Wild speculation number one: a grocery store in Melvindale
caught fire in recent weeks and excess firefighting foam from
that situation has traveled for days in the sewer and is now
coming out at that location.

Stated theory elsewhere: someone dumped a foaming
cleaner down the sewer either intentionally or accidentally.

Wild speculation number two: there was a welding/fabricating
facility just north of that location a few years back. It went
out of business some ten years ago and was torn down
afterwards...but maybe a plume of say, degreasing types
of chemicals from that facility has just now made its way
through the soil to just upstream of the sewer opening.

Although there are mostly only Marathon finished product
tanks in the vicinity of that sewer, there is still some chance
that something is coming from Marathon, unless the runoff
and leaching from the Marathon product storage area has
been monitored and has been accounted for.

[Pam]

Maybe it's an alien life form.

https://youtu.be/TdUsyXQ8Wrs

[Honky Tonk]

Today some city workers were assembling something with
wire mesh and straw at the location [[drove past on way to
work, not part of that work crew); there is an ancient sewer
opening in the side of the hill. Never noticed it before.

Wild speculation number one: a grocery store in Melvindale
caught fire in recent weeks and excess firefighting foam from
that situation has traveled for days in the sewer and is now
coming out at that location.

Stated theory elsewhere: someone dumped a foaming
cleaner down the sewer either intentionally or accidentally.

Wild speculation number two: there was a welding/fabricating
facility just north of that location a few years back. It went
out of business some ten years ago and was torn down
afterwards...but maybe a plume of say, degreasing types
of chemicals from that facility has just now made its way
through the soil to just upstream of the sewer opening.

Although there are mostly only Marathon finished product
tanks in the vicinity of that sewer, there is still some chance
that something is coming from Marathon, unless the runoff
and leaching from the Marathon product storage area has
been monitored and has been accounted for.

Meh, I like Pam's explanation better...

[O3H]

Is a left handed "Handle" or a right handed "Handle" ?

Because when someone has a handle on it ,
you want to know if they lean left or right,
especially when shovelling the shite

[Pam]

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...-in-melvindale

officials announced Thursday that the substance appears to be formed by surface coating from a parking lot mixing with rain. Officials are still investigating the substance to make sure this is the cause

[Dumpling]

Thanks Pam for that. The right lane is still closed near there
as of today 8/23/2018 so it is still a project. Since most
parking lot surfacing jobs don't do this clever alien trick next
to a refinery maybe someone was doing some creative recycling
of some substance or other.
Nice to know what it was, more or less.