Please contact the Site Lead for the most up-to-date status of this site.
Brent Ritchie, RitchieB1@Michigan.gov or 616-581-1782.
Steele Avenue Area located in the 1500 Block of Steele Avenue SW is a vacant, undeveloped property comprising 2.2 acres in an industrial neighborhood. The purchaser conducted an environmental assessment before they purchased the property in late 2018, which included the collection of five groundwater samples. Four of the five samples exceeded the groundwater cleanup criteria. Since this property was never developed, the PFAS are believed to be from an off-site source yet to be determined.
Westerly groundwater flow is toward the Silver Creek Drain (in an underground culvert) and Plaster Creek is approximately a half-mile to the west. There are no known impacts to surface water. Municipal water is available and no known drinking water wells are nearby.
Content posted January 2021.
EGLE collaborated with the local health department and determined that there were no nearby residential or irrigation wells.
As staff time and funding permits, a state funded investigation may commence to pursue the source of PFAS in groundwater.
This table was updated to include all seven PFAS criteria effective December 21, 2020.
|
Type of Sample |
Date Sampled (or Range) |
Numberof Sample Results Received |
Number of Samples above Criteria |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Groundwater Monitoring Wells |
November 20, 2020 | 5 | 4 |
*Residential well and groundwater monitoring well results are compared to EGLE Part 201 criteria for 7 PFAS compounds: PFOS (16 ppt), PFOA (8 ppt), PFNA (6 ppt), PFHxS (51 ppt), PFHxA (400,000 ppt), PFBS (420 ppt), and HFPO-DA (370 ppt).
