EPA continues cleanup and evaluation at Klee Road site
by Peter Jakey, Managing Editor
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continued its assessment and evaluation phases of the Klee Road site cleanup, following the Memorial Day weekend, and is expected to wrap up today. Jean Gross, Presque Isle County?s public information officer, who is District Health Department No. 4?s environmental health sanitarian in the county, said the categorizing of the chemicals is being handled as ?protocol requires,? an e-mailed press release stated.
Containers of liquids, from small beakers to 55-gallon drums are being removed from the main building, as well as a shed, to an intermodal freight transport container where they are being stored and secured. Members of the cleanup crew take it to the container where ?special electronic equipment tells you what the chemical is and what to do with it.? DAVE, 30, and Michelle Lewis, 29, face felony charges after they are believed to have made pirated DVD?s at the Klee Road building and sold them. No speculations or conclusions have been made regarding the intended use of the chemicals.
Gross said EPA officials know what some of the chemicals are, but have not provided an update as to the specifics. ?They told me it is chemicals that you might find around your house,? said Gross, ?In your own house, or your own garage, you have a lot of chemicals that people just don?t think of. Here, there was definitely something going on, we don?t know what yet.?