[CPEO-BIF] Diamond Chrome Plating TCE, Howell, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Howell toxic air threat eased by plating equipment shutdown

By Garret Ellison 
MLive (MI) 
November 22, 2019

HOWELL, MI - Regulators say the immediate danger from toxic air in Livingston County has passed after a plating company in Howell shut down emissions from equipment that was pushing high levels of a cancer-causing chemical out of rooftop vents.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) says ambient air tests around the city of Howell show significantly reduced levels of trichloroethylene (TCE), which had been traced to the Diamond Chrome Plating company at 604 S. Michigan Ave.

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The plating facility is surrounded by a residential area. Ambient TCE was being detected inside Howell homes and air purifying units were installed at three of them earlier this year.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/11/howell-toxic-air-threat-eased-by-plating-equipment-shutdown.html

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