- Dates
- 1990-08-01 – 1990-08-29
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentinfrastructuregovernancecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On August 1, 1990, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources began investigating the size and subsurface path of a petroleum-impacted area on Beaver Island and designing a cleanup system. The Beacon reports that the leak traveled in a roughly straight line from the former tanks toward the water.
Sources
- Reports the August 1 DNR investigation into the subsurface petroleum-impacted area and a straight-line migration path from former tanks toward the water. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1990-08_Beaver-Beacon
- Paired held twenty-page August issue PDF.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1990-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan DNR begins Beaver Island petroleum-contamination cleanup investigation, 1990”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-dnr-petroleum-cleanup-1990/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 29, 1990, "DNR Clean-up Begins on Beaver Island." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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