[CPEO-BIF] Mount Clemens Metal Products and other sites, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Perhaps the drinking-water crisis in Flint, Michigan is drawing attention to industrial sources of water contamination. - LS]

Can Michigan afford clean water? 

By PETER PAYETTE 
Interlochen Public Radio (MI)
January 14, 2016

Michigan has more than 280 contaminated sites that are “orphans.” That means the company that made the mess no longer exists and the state has to deal with it.

But Michigan is running out of money to tackle these environmental problems. That was not good news for Antrim County, home to one of the largest contaminated sites in the country. State management of an underground plume of trichlorethylene (TCE) has been crucial here for years and will be needed in the future.

It’s been more than a decade since residents like Ruth Ann Clark went onto city water because of the TCE contamination. Her water comes from Mancelona, about eight miles away from her house.


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For the entire article, see
http://interlochenpublicradio.org/post/can-michigan-afford-clean-water

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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