[CPEO-BIF] "Health department posts final Water Gremlin public assessment, " White Bear, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Health department posts final Water Gremlin public assessment

White Bear Press (MN)
August 31, 2022 

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) released its final Water Gremlin Public Health Assessment (PHA) Aug. 23. Comments received during a public comment period are included in the assessment, as are MDH responses. 

The assessment summarizes and interprets available environmental data from Water Gremlin investigations from 2019 to the present. The document describes how people may have been or continue to be, exposed to chemicals from the White Bear Township manufacturer and what that may mean for their health.

An assessment summary lists several main conclusions regarding potential exposures to contaminants from Water Gremlin, the company found to be emitting much more trichloroethylene (TCE) into the air than allowed by its Minnesota Pollution Control Agency air permit in 2019. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.presspubs.com/white_bear/news/health-department-posts-final-water-gremlin-public-assessment/article_843fc1cc-2968-11ed-a2f8-cfc61150105e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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