SRSW.org
Welcome to the Scio Residents for Safe Water (SRSW) Website.
Our mission is to protect and preserve the groundwater in Scio Township.
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
Next CARD meeting is a monthly meeting, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 6-8pm via Zoom)
-- Subscribe to CARD email notices
-- Skim CARD Chair Notes for recent/in-depth info about Gelman dioxane site
(SRSW provides info systems support for CARD)
USEPA Gelman website Superfund website (new)
-- FAQs page --Superfund Cleanup Process --Community Guide
--EGLE docs list archive --new version copied by SRSW (as of 01/31/2023)
-- Join the EGLE-DEQ-Gelman Listserv to get EGLE/DEQ emails
City of Ann Arbor 1,4-dioxane Info
-- [archives]
Ann Arbor City Council Members
Washtenaw County Dioxane website
-- Washtenaw County Public Health Factsheet on 1,4-Dioxane
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
EPA News Release on Gelman Superfund Site
Next step in the process. 60 day comment period 3/7/2024-5/6/2024. More...
Enter your comments by 5/6/2024 to support listing the Gelman dioxane site as a USEPA Superfund site to achieve the most effective, protective and community-acceptable cleanup of this major "forever chemical" site before it damages even more of our municipal water sources and residential wells.
(See content on this SRSW.org site for more info on the Gelman site)
** SRSW & CARD will have a booth at the Ann Arbor Earth Day Festival ** 1-4pm, Sunday, April 21, 2024, Leslie Science & Nature Center
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 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
Online News Articles - ongoing list (See also Archives)
10/04/2021 - "New" Gelman Purge well - TW-24 -comments by SRSW & CARD chair, Roger Rayle
Tweets by SRSWorg1
~ "play-by-play" coverage of dioxane-related issues since 2016 (viewers probably want to skip the Promoted Tweets shown)
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