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” A longtime Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site has been identified as a PFAS contamination site by the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team.
On Tuesday, MPART listed Velsicol Chemical on its list of sites. The property on Bankson Street in Gratiot County was home to a chemical manufacturing plant from 1936 to 1978 when it shut down in the wake of the state’s ‘PBB disaster.’
The EPA has been working on the site virtually ever since, adding a slurry wall to try and contain the chemical contamination, then returning when it was deemed that more work was needed.” …