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8-month PFAS disclosure gap draws backlash for Michigan officials
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
A Michigan EGLE investigation map shows suspected contamination from PFAS used by the U.S. Coast Guard Station at Cherry Capitol Airport in Traverse City in proximity to a group of homes in East Bay Township.
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TRAVERSE CITY, MI Do not keep people in the dark about potential exposure to harmful chemicals even if an investigation hasn’t provided all the answers yet.
That message was delivered to state officials by members of a citizen advisory panel, who sharply criticized the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) for waiting the eight months to tell homeowners about an investigation into private well contamination from toxic “forever chemicals” near the Traverse City airport.
Credit Taylor Wizner
Public health officials say the positivity rate, hospitalizations and new Covid cases are all trending downward.
Current cases are close to where they were before Covid spiked in northern Michigan last fall, says Munson’s Chief Medical Officer Christine Nefcy.
“For the last two days we’ve been below 5% [positivity] and we have not been there since October,” she says. “It’s really great news.”
There are more than 24,000 cases in the region and more than 622,000 cases in the state, as of Wednesday.
Munson has about half as many Covid patients as a month ago.
“I think the mitigation efforts that our local and state health departments put into place have been 100% effective,” Nefcy says.
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The Grand Traverse County Health Department has released a letter on their mass vaccination clinics. The clinics were announced Friday and are set to start on Monday at NMC’s Hagerty Center by appointment only. The Health Department says they’ve had an estimated 23,000 people identify themselves as eligible for Phase 1-B vaccinations leading up to their first clinics. They say.