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For years and even decades, tens of thousands of people in northwest Seminole County, Lake Mary and Sanford have been drinking water containing a toxic industrial chemical at varying concentrations, the Orlando Sentinel has found. The chemical, 1,4-dioxane, is deemed likely to cause liver and kidney cancer and other illnesses by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Labeled a contaminant of ...

Michigan’s Attorney General says terms of a new consent judgment have been reached between the state’s Department of Environment Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and Gelman Sciences. Dana Nessel says it moves forward plans to remediate Gelman’s 1,4, toxic dioxane plume. But, as WEMU’s Cathy Shafran reports, a local activist group is questioning the plan.

The latest sampling from Gelman’s 1,4 dioxane plume in Washtenaw County is again raising concerns from the head of the Coalition for Action on Remediation of Dioxane that the plume is not under control.

A consultant for Ann Arbor Township is recommending continued testing of area wells for the 1,4 dioxane emanating from the old Gelman Sciences facility in Scio Township. As WEMU's Cathy Shafran reports, that's despite the fact state testing of a local well last week did not turn up detectable levels of the toxin.

New concerns are being raised about the spread of contamination from the Gelman 1,4 dioxane plume into Ann Arbor Township. WEMU’s Cathy Shafran has more.

A massive contamination plume in groundwater in the Ann Arbor area is continuing to spread and no one knows where or if it will stop.

More residential wells are contaminated with dioxane outside Ann Arbor, according to recent tests. Federal environmental officials classify the chemical as likely to cause cancer.

Credit Scio Residents for Safe Water The plume of 1,4 dioxane in Washtenaw Countys groundwater is one step closer to getting federal help with its cleanup. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy requested today that the Environmental Protection Agency initiate the assessment of the site for the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. Gelman Sciences is responsible for the plume of 1,4 dioxane that has been slowing seeping into the groundwater of the areas surrounding the co...