The resident expressed concern about an unknown substance found on and around his home in the area of Ballard Road & Jefferson Avenue in Harrison Township. On February 16, 2016, 127th Wing officials at Selfridge Air National Guard Base were contacted by a resident who lives about 1 ½ miles from the southern border of the base, concerned about a possible environmental issue. Property of people who just want answers and want it cleaned up. So it remains on property in the neighborhood. Lim says it could be a week before they know what it is but the neighbors still want to wait it out of fears that it could be hazardous. "I wouldn't even hazard a guess because I don't want to mislead anybody so the best way is to collect samples, send it to the lab and they tell us what it is," Lim said. So what did engineer Francisco Lim find? He doesn't know either. On Wednesday the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality came out to get samples. Selfridge has now released a statement saying their extensive review of their aircraft traffic shows no indication the substance came from a military aircraft of any type. Schluto said he has contacted Selfridge several times but he's not getting any answers and has only been told that it is a priority. "It does not appear to be a fuel substance at all and so we did confirm that but it appears as though it came from an aircraft but we haven't confirmed that but we did turn it over to Selfridge to investigate," fire Chief Michael Lopez said. Harrison Township Fire came out but they don't know what it is either. Since they live just two miles from Selfridge Air National Guard Base, they have their suspicions. More specifically, probably a plane since this is restricted airspace. Then when I started scraping the snow, I found all this other stuff, I took a closer look and then I said well, that's not bird, that's oil, that's. Ever since he pulled up to his Harrison Township home and found what looked like tar all over his truck, driveway, and neighborhood.
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