Cancer-causing pesticide polluted local rivers for decades, D.C. alleges

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Velsicol Chemical polluted Michigan in 1973...

Biggest Superfund Clean-up in the state. Cancer causing PCBs in the Pine River — one of the beautiful stretches of water in the northern LP.

Cleanup of Michigan’s largest Superfund site, begun in 1998, could take 7 more years

by Chris Ehrmann
Saginaw and Bay City News, Updated: May. 21, 2019,

Excerpt…

The Velsicol plant not only was the site of Michigan’s infamous 1973 mix-up that resulted in the chemical PBB making its way into Michigan’s food supply, but extremely high levels of the chemical DDT were found in the Pine River after the plant closed in the late 1970s.

The Pine River cleanup — which started in 1998 and ended in 2006 — alone has cost over $100 million. Workers removed over 750,000 tons of DDT-laced sediment from the river.

In addition to the river cleanup, many chemicals were found in the soil at the plant site after it was demolished. Workers are removing the materials through a process called in-situ thermal treatment.

The process works by inserting metal rods into the ground that heat up the chemicals to boiling. They are then siphoned off and destroyed.

Rachel Bassler, press officer for the EPA Region 5, wrote in an email to The Saginaw News-MLive that total cost for cleaning up the St. Louis site could be in excess of $350 million.

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https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2019/05/cleanup-of-michigans-largest-superfund-site-begun-in-1998-could-take-7-more-years.html

This company must have owners, perhaps?