The Brief
- The owner of a shuttered demolition company is suing Detroit for $100 million.
- Gayanga Demolition Company used contaminated dirt to backfill demolition sites around the city.
- Its owner says it used dirt from city-approved sites.
(FOX 2) – On one side, a demolition company. On the other side, the city of Detroit. And at the heart of a $100 million lawsuit the former has filed against the latter are piles of contaminated dirt.
Brian McKinney Sr., owner of the now-shuttered Gayanga Demolition Company, is accused by Detroit’s Office of Inspector General of using polluted dirt to backfill possibly a hundred different sites of demolished homes throughout the city.
While there is little question about the toxic materials found in the soil, the debate over who is at fault for using the contaminated dirt is now the focus of legal action between the two parties.…