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MPART: Site of Michigan’s PBB disaster also contaminated with PFAS

Photo Credit: Matt Jaworowski / WOODTV 8 - The Velsicol Chemical Plant in St. Louis, Michigan, formerly known as Michigan Chemical, is the source of the PBB that ended of poisoning thousands of animals and contaminating virtually every person in Michigan in the 1970s. The plant was shuttered in 1978 and the EPA has been working to cleanup the site off and on for more than 40 years.

Read the full article by Matt Jaworowski (WoodTV 8)

” 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.” …

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