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  
The next CARD meeting is a Quarterly meeting with EGLE 

Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 10am-noon EDT via Zoom) 

** no CARD  meeting November 5 election day **

-- Subscribe to CARD email notices

-- Skim CARD Chair Notes for recent/in-depth info & videos about Gelman dioxane site

(SRSW provides info systems support for CARD)

USEPA Gelman website  Superfund website 

-- FAQs page  --Superfund Cleanup Process  --Community Guide


EGLE (DEQ) Gelman Website 

--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

-- County's Gelman plume map

-- Washtenaw County Public Health Factsheet on 1,4-Dioxane

Scio Township website 

--Gelman dioxane cleanup

Ann Arbor Township website

Huron River Watershed Council - dioxane

www.dioxane.org

--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:

Official Public Notice 

NPDES Permit Renewal Docs

(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)

Gelman Site in Urbanized Area

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

MAPS/IMAGES

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

Recent CARD/SRSW Videos

Videos of Earlier Public Meetings

...

EVENTS


DATA

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?)

...

DOCUMENTS LIST via DEQ

partially replaced by EGLE's Gelman Website - Document List


ARCHIVES