Air quality across the state is being impacted by smoke from Canadian wildfires. Information on current conditions and alerts can be found at: AirNow.gov.
A complete list of all programs within the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)
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.
The Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides all persons (except persons incarcerated in correctional facilities) with access to public records of public bodies. Requests to inspect or receive public records from EGLE must be in writing and describe the requested records with enough detail to enable the department to identify and locate the requested records. Some records are exempt from disclosure under the FOIA or another statute and thus will not be provided. A fee may be charged to process your request. Please note that many records are available that do not require a formal FOIA request.
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Environmental clean-up activities are performed to address contamination resulting from hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDF), and are referred to as "corrective action" in the hazardous waste regulations. Hazardous waste TSDFs are required to submit corrective action plans to the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), for review and approval. The corrective action plans provide details on how the site owner(s) and/or operator(s) will investigate and clean-up the contamination to meet standards protective of human health and the environment. Though the corrective action cleanup process varies from site to site, it typically includes an initial site assessment, site characterization, evaluation of remedial alternatives, and implementation of the selected remedy.
Air emissions from The Dow Chemical Company’s (Dow) incinerators and manufacturing operations in the past contained dioxins and furans which were found in the soil downwind of the plant. Today, Dow has a rotary kiln incinerator that is 99.999 percent efficient in eliminating dioxin and furan emissions. However, due to past operations, Dow continues to work with EGLE, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. FWS), to address dioxin contamination in the Midland and downstream floodplain area. See below for on-site and off-site corrective action activities.
Dow’s Hazardous Waste Facility Operating License (License), On-site Corrective Action attachment details Dow's on-site hazardous waste cleanup obligations. For specific license provisions see Attachment Text, Figures, and Tables, Appendices A-E, F1, F2, F3, and G-H. Dow's on-site cleanup is being performed to prevent human exposure to hazardous waste constituents. Past operations have resulted in 61 areas across the 1,900 acres subject to cleanup. Of those areas, 42 have been confirmed to have no human exposure concerns. Another 19 areas remain in various stages of investigation and cleanup.
Dow is implementing a plan to address site-wide dioxins and furans. They are also performing investigation and clean-up activities to address other contaminants, vapor intrusion, soil, and groundwater contamination concerns. Annually, Dow submits an Implementation Report for the previous year and Work Plan for the next year. Figures and Tables are available upon request.
The Off-site Corrective Action Midland Area Soils attachment of Dow’s License details Dow's off-site hazardous waste cleanup obligations in the Midland Resolution Area (MRA). To review a copy of the Remedial Action Plan, please click on the links below.
Most of the Dow off-site cleanup was performed from 2012 through 2016. In 2016, Dow submitted a final report detailing off-site cleanup, which was approved by EGLE. The off-site cleanup involved removing the top 12 inches of soil, contaminated with dioxins and furans above the residential risk based cleanup criteria, from over 1,700 properties across Midland. Dow removed contaminated soil, replaced it with clean soil, and then re-landscaped the properties. Dow is monitoring properties in the MRA to ensure further action is taken at properties that have not yet been evaluated or remediated, as appropriate. Dow must report their monitoring data annually. Copies of these annual reports are available upon request.
Due to large document sizes, and the necessary protection of personal identifying information (PII), electronic copies of the Appendices and the Annual Reports are available upon request with the PII redacted.
Elizabeth Vanderhoef, VanderhoefE1@Michigan.gov, 517-388-2644, Project Manager & Geologist
Joe Rogers, RogersJ5@Michigan.gov, 517-599-531, Geologist (Salzburg Landfill Only)
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Through your observations and reporting of activities of concern, you play a valuable role in helping EGLE protect human health and the environment. To file a complaint or share details about improper waste handling or disposal, contact EGLE through the Pollution Emergency Alerting System (PEAS) Hotline at 800-292-4706.
