[CPEO-BIF] "Follow-Up Testing Clears Green Oak Homes Of Contamination Concerns, " Green Township, MIchigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Follow-Up Testing Clears Green Oak Homes Of Contamination Concerns 

WHMI Radio (Livington County, MI)
June 20, 2018 


Follow-up testing of homes in Green Township suspected of possibly being contaminated by a toxic chemical has produced some good news for residents. 

Testing of the air inside more than a dozen homes in a neighborhood near Whitmore Lake Road, northwest of Lee Road, has not detected significant levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE. Officials were worried the toxic, cancer-causing chemical might have infiltrated their homes from the former Haigh Manufacturing property on Whitmore Lake Road. But according to Matt Bolang, director of environmental health for the Livingston County Health Department, preliminary soil gas well results, “have shown low levels of TCE generally below the threshold to sample inside homes. He added that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is still evaluating that data and determining the next steps. 

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For the entire story, see
https://whmi.com/news/article/testing-clears-green-oak-homes-contamination-concerns

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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