[CPEO-BIF] "Northern Michigan community tries to stay ahead of massive contaminated plume"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Northern Michigan community tries to stay ahead of massive contaminated plume 

By KAYE LAFOND 
Michigan Radio
July 18, 2017

When I arrive at Bethany Hawkins' home, the first thing she does is offer me a glass of her well water.
"Our water's always been really good," she says.

But Hawkins’ well could have an expiration date. It’s an estimated 675 feet from the edge of a plume of polluted groundwater.

A toxic legacy

There's an estimated 13 trillion gallons of groundwater laced with TCE, or trichloroethylene,  stretching from the village of Mancelona 6 miles away to the edge of Hawkins’ gated community.

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The source of the contamination is an orphan site, meaning that the responsible companies, Mt. Clemens Industries and later Wickes Manufacturing, no longer exist and can’t be made to pay for it.

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For the entire story, see
http://michiganradio.org/post/northern-michigan-community-tries-stay-ahead-massive-contaminated-plume

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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