Excerpt from Forbes blogger Kai Petainen's 9/19/2012 blog (page 2):
Let me tell you a different type of story with customer/investor/public relations:
According to the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan webpage…
Groundwater beneath the city of Ann Arbor is currently contaminated by the probable carcinogen 1,4 dioxane
From the article ‘Residents Frustrated by Dioxane Decision’ in the Ann Arbor Chronicle:
The amount of acceptable levels of 1,4 dioxane has also changed – when the contaminant was first discovered in local drinking water, the state’s criterion for acceptable levels was 3 parts per billion (ppb). That level has been raised to 85 ppb. A much greater geographic area contains 1,4 dioxane in levels below 85 ppb, but the state can’t require Pall to remediate those lower levels. And in the prohibition zone, up to 2,799 ppb is allowed. There are currently pockets where levels are higher levels than that – in the 3,000 ppb range. Those areas are being remediated.
Although the Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), a company that creates water purification systems, did not create the spill, they are responsible for cleaning it up. Every so often I try to contact Pall about the dioxane clean-up efforts. For example, I know there is a database that has information about the dioxane in Ann Arbor, and so I asked Pall:
Question — with regard to the dioxane in Ann Arbor, is there a database that holds info about the Dioxane? If so, where is that database? Where can I see the results of that database?
What was Pall’s response? Nothing, they didn’t respond. Is that appropriate customer/investor/public relations from a public company about a public carcinogen in our groundwater?
PayPal listened, Pall did not.
When a Forbes rep can't get s straight answer from Pall about their data monitoring of Waters of the State, that shows where things stand.
The MDEQ had promised to have a resolution of the data issues by August 2012, but had to announce that it could not meet that deadline.