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Article: Highest Dioxin Level Found in Saginaw River: EPA, MDEQ and Dow at Work on Emergency Cleanup
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 13, 2007
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Anne Rowan of the EPA, +1-312-353-9391,
rowan.anne@epa.gov
CHICAGO,Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Acting immediately on
information received from Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich., U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality and the company have begun preliminary
emergency removal activities at a previously unknown dioxin hot spot
on the Saginaw River.
Late Friday, Dow notified EPA and MDEQ of preliminary,
unvalidated results of over 1.6 million parts per trillion (ppt) of
dioxin in one sample of sediment taken from the Saginaw River. This
concentration is 50 times higher than a 32,000 ppt level, previously
the highest ...