Plating Services News Today

MADISON HEIGHTS — Roslyn Grafstein, the mayor of Madison Heights, has announced she is running for a four-year term on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.

MADISON HEIGHTS/HAZEL PARK — A new year has begun, and local leaders are both cautious and hopeful about what may come.

The city acquired and razed the troubled Electro Plating Services building on 10 Mile Road last year. Cleanup of tainted soil expected by early 2024.

MADISON HEIGHTS/HAZEL PARK — The Madison Heights/Hazel Park Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual State of the Cities event March 23, at Eastern Palace Club in Hazel Park.

MADISON HEIGHTS — In December 2019, before the pandemic turned the world on its ear, Madison Heights found itself in the national spotlight when green-colored groundwater laced with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium gushed onto Interstate 696.

The impending demolition will allow state regulators a better look at what remaining mess exists at the chronically polluted site

Demolition of the main building of Electro-Plating Services — which caused a spill of bright green toxic chemicals onto a highway in 2019 - begins Friday.

The Madison Heights City Council has approved a plan to demolish the Electro-Plating Services site that is known for leaking green ooze onto I-696.

Our roundup of the latest news from metro Detroit and Michigan businesses as well as announcements from government agencies.

State environmental officials say it’s too early to call it a windfall. That’s because some portion of the money that showed up on the state’s year-end balance sheet will likely be offset by lower-than-average revenue next year, as Michiganders liquidate stockpiles of empties that they didn’t get around to returning in 2020. The glut of bottle bill revenue comes as a GOP-majority House budget recommendation proposes slashing the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy...