The issue, according to Scott Lewis of WXYZ-TV, centers around the old Ford Visteon Parts plant at 23 mile road and Mound Road that is now being demolished.
Ford sold it to a Chicago Company called Indiana Metals. That firm is tearing down the plant to clear the land for re-development.
Ford has known for a long time that there is contamination on the plant site and they have agreed to clean it up.
What was not known until recently is that contamination, believed to be from the old Ford plant, has spread into a huge patch of land to the east that Ford sold to a developer called Grand Sakwa.
“We’ve got possibly 75 million gallons of contaminated ground water that we know of. And to clean up what’s already out there could cost in the neighborhood of $57 million,” Jim Dragun, Ph.D. told the 7 Action News Investigators.
Ford confirms that they will ask a judge on Monday morning to issue a protective order in the case but they say the intent is not to hide information from the public.
