2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:42 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Huron County Expo Center (MI) antifreeze contamination
 
DEQ to county: Get antifreeze out of ground

By Kate Hessling
Huron Daily Tribune (MI)
September 16, 2009

BAD AXE - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials told Huron County commissioners Tuesday the county is liable and responsible for cleaning up the antifreeze contamination that still exists at the Huron County Expo Center.

"Get the glycol out of there so it doesn’t continue to spread and affect things outside of that area," said Rhonda Klann, a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) environmental quality analyst in Bay City, during Tuesday’s meeting of the whole.

Klann, along with DEQ Senior Environmental Quality Analyst Robin Oeming, said the first priority is addressing the groundwater contamination, which testing found in some areas is as high as 5 million parts per billion. Because 1 million parts per billion is considered an acute ventilation hazard, Klann said the groundwater contamination has to be dealt with.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.michigansthumb.com/articles/2009/09/16/news/local_news/doc4ab0fd91171ee984624111.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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