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Clean Watershed Campaign
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September 2009
Welcome to the Lone Tree Council’s web site dedicated wholly to illuminating EPA’s recent regulatory take over of Dow Chemical’s dioxin contamination of 52 miles of river and the Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron.
For decades and decades as heavily polluted rivers coursed through mid Michigan to Lake Huron, they deposited contaminated sediment in parks and backyards. All living things are taking up Dow’s chemical waste. Studies demonstrate that people, wildlife and fish have their blood and tissue contaminated with Dow’s chemical fingerprint. There are a host of other contaminants in our water too. See CHEMICAL SOUP
This decades old issue began with the 1978 discovery of high levels of dioxin in the fish of the Tittabawassee River that flows past Dow’s world headquarters. Twenty-two miles down river the Tittabawassee River empties into the Saginaw River. Together these polluted and unhealthy waters travel in tandem to Lake Huron where the fetid sediments are put down in the bay—home of the longest contiguous fresh water wetlands in the United States.
Dow has been unwilling to be a good corporate neighbor and address their contamination. For as long as these contaminated rivers have been flowing, Dow has been fending off EPA, Michigan DNR and Michigan DEQ efforts to protect public health and restore the river system. Dow has instead launched numerous public and political campaigns to create confusion, delays and avoid giving the people of the Great Lakes Bay Region, a cleaner river system here at the heart of Michigan’s largest watershed. Dow’s irresponsible behavior is well documented. See DELAY GAME
Administrator Jackson in a call to Lone Tree Council said this site was a priority for her agency and EPA declared Dow’s contamination a “public health threat” to the region.
The ball is once again in EPA’s court (they dropped it in the 1980’s) and we are watching.