This is going to be fun.
From one of my cybermermaids, who has brought forth precious pearls of wisdom for the deep, dark bowels of the Michigan Government....
And they lied in the article.....waste water from there still flows into Flint Municipal system and goes through their water treatment plant and as far as I know that doesn't take out PFAS et al. that means it has been flowing to flint since it started getting into the waste systems and over/out flows.Hey Bill, Smooches!
Oh, wait, we have Dana Nessel and "The Girls" in the Michigan Attorney General's Office over the Flint Water prosecution.
It would be a bit awkward for the "The Girls" to question General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra, former Vice Chairman of the General Motors Foundation Chair Debbie Dingell, or anyone associated with the Michigan State University Sparrow Clinton Hospital, but hey, what do I know?
I know this falls under the realms of war crimes.
PFAS levels elevated in 4 of 5 Buick City sewer test sites
FLINT, MI -- The most recent testing at the former Buick City site shows elevated levels of PFOA or PFOS aren’t only in storm sewers on the 400-acre property, but in sanitary sewers as well.
Four of five sampling locations tested in mid-December showed elevated levels of one -- or both -- of the compounds, adding to evidence of widespread contamination that will require further sampling and investigation of connections to the sanitary sewers.
"We have reported these results to the U.S. (Environmental Protection Agency) and (Michigan Department of Environmental Quality),” the RACER Trust says in a posting on its web site.
RACER manages the old Buick property, which was abandoned by General Motors during its bankruptcy proceedings a decade ago. The court-created trust is charged with cleaning up and selling off the real estate for redevelopment, but sales have been put on hold until the scope of PFAS contamination is better defined.
In November, RACER held community meetings to discuss its finding to date.
PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS and many other chemicals that have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries in the United States since the 1940s, according to EPA.
Although there are few regulations to stop the spread of PFAS, either from the federal or state government, Michigan’s rule for water quality specifically limiting PFOS to 12-parts per trillion -- is one of them.
RACER’s web posting says the most recent water samples were collected Dec. 17 from five locations in the sanitary sewer that flows east along Hamilton Avenue and then combines with the sanitary main from James P Cole Boulevard.
Concentrations of PFOA ranged from zero to 2,280 ng/L, and PFOS results ranged from zero to 27,580 ng/L -- nearly twice the level as the highest previous testing of groundwater in the area.
Both the groundwater and sanitary sewer tests showed high results near a former paint shop, north of the new Lear Corp. plant.
Testing for a range of per- and poly-fluorinated compounds started last year at the Buick complex, which GM fully closed in 2010.
The property is one of four sites in Genesee County that the state DEQ is investigating because of elevated levels of PFAS. Others are the shuttered Richfield and Coldwater Road landfills and Bishop Airport.
RACER officials have said none of the PFAS detected on the Buick City property is making its way to the municipal water system, which has not drawn from the Flint River since October 2015.
Previous testing showed PFAS moving through the storm sewer system into the river.
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