SRSW.org
Welcome to the Scio Residents for Safe Water (SRSW) Website.
Our mission is to protect and preserve the groundwater in Scio Township.
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RELATED STAKEHOLDER SITES - links
CARD (Coalition for Action on Remediation of Dioxane)
Official local government/citizen stakeholder group formed in 2006 by local governments and citizen stakeholders to better jointly understand and address Gelman dioxane site issues.
-- Attend Monthly CARD meetings
The next CARD meeting is a quarterly meeting with EGLE
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 10a-noon ET via Zoom)
-- Skim CARD Chair Notes for recent/in-depth info & videos about Gelman dioxane site
(SRSW provides info systems support for CARD)
USEPA Gelman Superfund website
--Superfund Cleanup Process --Community Guide
--EGLE docs list archive --new version copied by SRSW (as of 01/31/2023)
--Remediation Information Data Exchange (RIDE) specify Location ID 81000018
City of Ann Arbor 1,4-dioxane Info
Ann Arbor City Council Members
Washtenaw County Dioxane website
Huron River Watershed Council - dioxane
--WEMU Green Room radio shows about dioxane
U-M SEAS/Gala Briefing on Dioxane Plume
Contact Your State Legislators
Contact Michigan Governor and other departments
Learn how to test your Well Water (scroll down)
Water on earth Infographic
Pall/Gelman 1,4-dioxane contamination site
FEATURED:
Gelman NPDES Permit Renewal
is proceeding without tightening dioxane discharge limits
Video of the 06/20/2024 Public Meeting/Hearing
(video courtesy of Rob Pattinson)
more info:
(includes SRSW & CARD stakeholder comments)
2024 NPL Website Links - Gelman Sciences site to learn about the NPL EPA Superfund process and review comments
12/12/2023 State supports Superfund status for Gelman groundwater plume in Ann Arbor
Thanks to all involved in achieving this next step towards an effective, protective, community-acceptable cleanup of the Gelman dioxane contamination.
( * not including data withheld under the Confidentiality Agreement established during the 4th Consent Judgment negotiations, e.g. new Burn Pit & Marshy Area data, but does include pre-1995 Gelman data not in EGLE's database)
The 2021-2023 Dioxane Detections in Township Residential Wells extend about 4/5 of a mile north of the Study Area for EGLE's 2020 Rockworks Modeling... (We have to move as fast as the dioxane)
The Gelman/Pall/Danaher site is unique in the amount of dioxane in the groundwater moving in several directions within an increasingly urbanized area with so many homeowner wells as their sole source of water
Tableau Public Visualizations
View Gelman contamination site dioxane data 1986-2021 different ways
(last updated 6/30/2022 )
Timelapse video of dioxane readings for all years 1986-2020
(Not including recent, unreported shallow dioxane sampling by Gelman.)
1 meter height represents 1 ppb of dioxane
click to expand
Videos of Earlier Public Meetings
Well Location discrepancies among available databases
(some databases have locations not on or names different than other databases)
Well Screen Elevations (how deep is the pollution?)
partially replaced by EGLE's Gelman Website - Document List
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