Marine Pollution Control8631 West Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, MI 48209 USA
313.849.2333 - 24/hour
11324 E Lakewood Blvd., #12 & #13
Holland, MI 49424
800-521-8232 – 24/Hour
GSA Contract #: GS-10F-0268R
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‘Slick’ Operators
3/6/2014
DETROIT’S MARINE POLLUTION CONTROL IS ON THE FRONT LINE AT OIL SPILLS AROUND THE WORLD.
From the outside, amid a row of non-descript brick buildings on the banks of the Rouge River in Detroit, the Marine Pollution Control corporate offices belie their importance. When an oil-spill disaster happens anywhere in the world, MPC will most likely get involved to clean it up.
Although Charles “Charlie” Usher, MPC president, said they are the oldest and most established oil-spill response company in the Great Lakes, their reach is worldwide.
Among other spills great and small, MPC has helped clean up the 1976 Amoco Cadiz oil spill in France, assisted Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts, served on an assessment team during Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf and rented out equipment to companies cleaning up the 2010 Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Spill, the worst in U.S. history.
When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska in 1989 dumping 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, MPC was called to transfer the lion’s share of the remaining 40 million gallons on board into other vessels.