To: Ann Arbor City Council
Ann Arbor needs the EPA Superfund to help clean up the Gelman Dioxane Plume
To have the City of Ann Arbor and City Council support an EPA Superfund Clean up of the Gelman 1,4-dioxane plume. This plume of a carcinogen has been going on for 35 years and is spreading with minimum cleanup under MDEQ. We want an EPA evaluation and Superfund, to make the polluter pay.
Why is this important?
The residents of Ann Arbor and surrounding cities, county and townships are tired of watching the contamination spread for 35 years closer towards our cities drinking water intake and homes with wells. The MDEQ and the polluter are not containing or controlling the spread, and they have slowed down remediation. The polluter is a multi-billion dollar company, Danaher (who bought Pall, who bought Gelman), who needs to be enforced by EPA to clean this up once and for all.