The Environmental Protection Agency’s timeline for the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers cleanup is available online. The cleanup has started in the Tittabawassee River near Dow Chemical Co.’s Midland plant, known as Section 1. The rivers are divided into 3- to 4-mile segments for management. Cleanup for the Segment 2 will likely start in 2014 and Segment 3 should start in 2015. EPA officials will plan for both sites in the year prior. The cleanup is long term; The Saginaw River and Bay do not yet have dates for cleanup. Segment 8 is the first in the Saginaw River. The rivers are contaminated with different chemicals in different areas, but chief among them are arsenic near the Dow Chemical plant and dioxins and furans in the Tittabawassee River.
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