By Steve Alexander Reporter
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Published: Wed, January 23, 2008 - 8:54 pm
Last Updated: Wed, January 23, 2008 - 10:10 pm
Steve Alexander
That's what people living in the neighborhood want to know.
The site in question is the old "AMPS' bumper factory on Navco Road near the I-10 overpass.
An investigation is underway to see exactly what's on the property.
Casi Callaway, the executive director of Mobile Baykeeper, says the facility used to put steel and chrome plating on car bumpers.
Callaway says, "Everything that's on that site has a potential to cause a very bad health problem, predominantly different kinds of cancer. You've got chromium and all kinds of heavy metals and heavy chemicals."
Now state and federal environmental workers have converged on the site.
Callaway says, "They're going in and filling up and cleaning off and sealing all of the open vats of terrible chemicals that are very, very dangerous for the public."
Donna Brown lives in the neighborhood and also says the facility doesn't have tight security.
Brown says, "The metal sides of the building have been torn away or folded back and it looks like people are going in there and using it for shelter or who knows what."
Officials with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management say they don't know who owns the property now.
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This has happened before,a company pollutes or contaminates the area with harmful chemicals and then moves to another site or files bankrupcy.The company officals and major investers or stock holders are never held accountable and the average american tax payer foots most ,if not all of the clean up.A good example would be polecat bay,on the north side of the causeway.This place will not even be useable for anything for another hundred years.I think ALCOA was the company,and they moved to south america to reap cheaper labor costs and still sell their product to americans.