Tittabawassee River cleanup near Dow Chemical's Midland plant to start in 2012

Cleanup work on a three-mile stretch of the Tittabawassee River along the Dow Chemical Co. plant in Midland is scheduled to being in the spring. It is one of the first steps in a several-year initiative of the Environmental Protection Agency and Dow Chemical Co. to clean the river of contaminants, which include dioxins and furans. Diane Russell, remedial project manager at the EPA’s Saginaw Field Office, said the Segment 1 project will take two construction seasons to complete. While dioxins are not a focus in the section, the cleanup will target several different contaminants, including arsenic, that in the stretch of river. Russell provided an overview of the 2012 plan at Monday's Saginaw-Tittabawassee Rivers Contamination Community Advisory Group meeting at Saginaw Valley State University.

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