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Val Look and see what you find on the number of superfund sites in Muskegon county in Michigan. At one time it was filled with chemical plants that polluted the heck out of the place.

I worked at two and told another where they could stick the place after seeing how bad it was. The Dupont Montague works plant was probably one of the cleanest in the area. OTT-Story and Hooker Chemical were the worst.

I worked for 6 months at the Hooker Montague plant and felt lucky to get out without serious health problems. We knew everytime they were comming to inspect the waste ponds, weeks in advance. We had to live thru hell from the fumes as we couldn't use caustic to kill them. The caustic in the ponds would have gotten the company in trouble with the DEQ. Many nights I wondered if I would make it thru the night alive. The whole plant is buried in a sealed vault now.

Hooker is the same outfit that caused the LOVE Canal mess in the east part of the US.

One of the few plants that remain had a toxic gas release again a couple weeks ago.

When I was a kid the city of Montague had there dump right in the marsh along White River.

There was a tannery along the shores of White Lake for over a century. I don't know how much was just spent cleaning up the mess IN the lake from dumped hides and chemicals.

I could go on and on about all the polution that has happened in Muskegon County by the chemical plants.