2018 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 22:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Mancelona Area, Michigan TCE plume
 
DEQ, MAWSA staying ahead of toxic TCE plume 

By Linda Gallagher
Antrim Review (MI)
October 25, 2018

In December of last year, Shanty Creek Resorts and more than 600 subdivision property owners got some very good news from Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) - the approaching underground plume of toxic Trichlorethylene (TCE) that has contaminated hundreds of private water wells since its discovery in 1999 appeared to be turning.

Instead of continuing on the northwestern path it had followed - since degreaser containing the toxic carcinogen used by a manufacturing facility on the southern edge of Mancelona had been dumped years ago onto the ground - the plume appeared to be taking more of a westerly path, where far fewer residences are located.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.antrimreview.net/content/deq-mawsa-staying-ahead-toxic-tce-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>
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