Community involvement and public participation are an essential part of EGLE’s mission, vision, and values.
SARA Title III establishes requirements regarding emergency planning and "Community Right-to-Know" reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals for federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as regulated facilities.
Resources and information on utilizing RRD's data exchange and the Inventory of Facilities.
An interactive map displaying contaminated sites throughout Michigan regulated under Parts 213, 201, and 211.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy’s (EGLE) Water Well Viewer (WWV), is an interactive mapping system that displays water wells along with other information, such as wellhead protection areas, underground storage tanks, and sites of environmental contamination. Water well locations have been identified by address matching, the use of global positioning systems (GPS), and by legal descriptions.
This system allows water well drilling and pump installation contractors to submit water well records.
EGLE's interactive calendar is designed to provide timely information on decisions before the Director, proposed settlements of contested cases, administrative rules promulgation, public hearings, meetings and comment deadlines, and environmental conferences, workshops and training programs.
Anyone wishing to formally serve legal documents upon the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), or its officers or employees, may do so by the following methods.
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The city is required to sample and test the water for many things, at many locations, at many frequencies. Sampling can be broken into three major categories: compliance monitoring, operational monitoring, and informational monitoring. EGLE sends the city a monitoring schedule each year which summarizes compliance monitoring requirements for what the samples must be analyzed for, where samples must be collected, and what the sample and reporting deadlines are. Generally, these samples must be submitted to a certified laboratory.
Like many states, the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act, 1976 PA 399, as amended (Act 399) places the responsibility to collect water samples on the public water supplies. Occasionally, EGLE will collect samples at the same time and location as the water supply and send the samples for analysis to a different laboratory. This is called split sampling and is done to identify any differences in water quality based on sample collection and/or laboratory analysis.
Available for download are the 2026 results of split sampling for metals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the intake and treated water taps. One set of samples was collected by the city’s laboratory contractor as usual, and another set of samples was collected by EGLE staff and sent to the EGLE laboratory.
In addition to compliance monitoring, the city voluntarily collects additional samples to better characterize the source water and understand treatment needs. This extra monitoring includes surface water intake sampling for PFAS which the city started in 2018. These results are representative of the water being pumped from the Detroit River into the Wyandotte filtration plant. Some of these samples were collected by EGLE’s contractor and some by city personnel. The sampling is somewhat duplicative of the city’s PFAS compliance monitoring, but they are collected at different times, are sent to a different lab, and are analyzed using a different method.
Download April-May 2022 results
Download June-July 2022 results
