EPA Selects Cleanup Plan for Tittabawassee River Island (MI)
For Immediate Release
No. 11-OPA064
(CHICAGO – July 26, 2011) The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Dow Chemical have signed
an agreement on a cleanup plan for a small island in the
Tittabawassee River. The clean up work, which will prevent
contaminated sediment from eroding and moving downstream, will
occur this fall.
The island is located near the
intersection of M-47 and Weiss St., about 17 miles downstream from
the confluence of the Chippewa and Tittabawassee rivers and about
seven miles upstream from the Shiawassee River.
EPA’s plan was developed with the
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and presented for
public comment this past spring.
A fact sheet outlining the island
cleanup and information on EPA and MDEQ’s activities to
address potentially contaminated areas along the Tittabawassee
River, Saginaw River and Bay, may be found at www.epa.gov/region5/sites/dowchemical.
