[CPEO-BIF] Huron County Expo Center (MI) antifreeze contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEQ to county: Get antifreeze out of ground

By Kate Hessling
Huron Daily Tribune (MI)
September 16, 2009

BAD AXE - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials told 
Huron County commissioners Tuesday the county is liable and responsible 
for cleaning up the antifreeze contamination that still exists at the 
Huron County Expo Center.

"Get the glycol out of there so it doesn’t continue to spread and affect 
things outside of that area," said Rhonda Klann, a Michigan Department 
of Environmental Quality (DEQ) environmental quality analyst in Bay 
City, during Tuesday’s meeting of the whole.

Klann, along with DEQ Senior Environmental Quality Analyst Robin Oeming, 
said the first priority is addressing the groundwater contamination, 
which testing found in some areas is as high as 5 million parts per 
billion. Because 1 million parts per billion is considered an acute 
ventilation hazard, Klann said the groundwater contamination has to be 
dealt with.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.michigansthumb.com/articles/2009/09/16/news/local_news/doc4ab0fd91171ee984624111.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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