Dow Chemical, EPA agree to Tittabawassee River cleanup plan adjacent to Midland plant

The cleanup in the Tittabawassee River along Dow Chemical Co.’s Midland plant will start next year. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency and Dow signed an agreement requiring the chemical giant to clean the pollutants in a three-mile stretch of river called Segment 1. This is the first of several segments in the EPA and Dow’s major cleanup along the river. Work done at sites and home properties this summer and in previous years was meant to keep residents from coming into contact with dioxins, furans and other chemical pollutants in the flood plain. Diane Russell, remedial project manager, said the construction at Segment 1 will start in 2012.

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