Post date: Sep 01, 2014 4:7:42 AM
July 23, 2000
In a July 17, 2000 order, Circuit Judge Donald E Shelton said that Pall-Gelman’s cleanup efforts to date has not not been effective in stopping the spread of the 1,4-dioxane in area groundwater. To remedy the situation, the Judge’s issued his order "first to require PGSI to submit an enforceable long range plan which will reduce all dioxane in these water supplies below legally acceptable levels and second to order immediate measures to move that process along faster than it has moved in the past."
Remediation Enforcement Order
1. PGSI shall submit a detailed plan which will reduce the dioxane in all affected water supplies below legally acceptable levels within a maximum period of five years from the date of this Order. Plus monitoring for an additional ten year period thereafter. Detailed plan to the MDEQ for review within 45 days, MDEQ response within 75 days, and plan back to Court within 90 days, for review and adoption as an Order of the Court.
2. More monitoring and purge wells in the 10d area, installed and operational within 60 days.
3. An additional UV treatment unit, with capacity to clean up within 5 years, installed and operational within 75 days.
4. Purging from the Evergreen area horizontal well to begin within 30 days after new UV unit installed.
5. Increase pumping rate of Evergreen purge wells LB1, LB2 and AE1 to 200 gpm within 30 days after new UV unit installed.
6. Seek access for MDEQ requested monitoring wells in the Dupont area within 30 days. Wells operational within 45 days after access granted.
7. More Western area monitoring wells within 45 days after access is obtained. If five months of monitoring shows dioxane above legally acceptable levels, then install a purge well within 60 days.
SRSW is generally pleased with the Judge's strong order but wonders who will decide which wells will be monitored to know when the cleanup is "done".