Laboratories Offering Home Testing
PFAS MCLs and Drinking Water
Statewide Testing Initiative
PFAS Sites and Areas of Interest
There are two major classes of firefighting foam: Class A and Class B. Class B is also called Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) and is usually created using PFAS. It is a highly effective foam used for fighting high-hazard flammable liquid fires, like gasoline, oil, and jet fuel.
Wastewater Treatment Plants / Industrial Pretreatment Program
Official Correspondence
Search is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. Please update to a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge to experience all features Michigan.gov has to offer.
Please contact the Site Lead for the most up-to-date status of this site.
Mark Reimann, ReimannM@Michigan.gov or 517-290-9379.
Bofors Nobel is a Superfund site located at 5025 Evanston Avenue. The site includes a former chemical production facility (Lomac, Inc.) and 10 abandoned sludge lagoons. The production and disposal of hazardous lagoon sludges on site have contaminated soil and groundwater. In the 1970s, contaminated groundwater discharging to Black Creek caused fish kills and severely impacted aquatic life in the creek. A groundwater extraction system that began operating in the early 1980s continues to operate and helps prevent discharge of site related contamination to the creek. This effort has helped the creek recover enough that some native fish populations have been reestablished in the previously affected portion of the creek. Many site contaminants still exceed criteria in the creek water.
Groundwater from nine extraction wells and surface water from the treatment wetland are sent to the Groundwater Treatment Plant (GWTP) and treated by a Granular Activated Carbon system. On March 25, 2021, three samples collected from the GWTP exceeded criteria for PFOS prior to treatment. The highest result was 23 ppt PFOS (compared to 16 ppt). The treated water is discharged to Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center (Permit No. BoFos10a).
Groundwater flows to the south towards Black Creek. The extent of site related PFAS contamination and its effect on Black Creek is still unknown.
Content posted May 2023.
See an overview of the groundwater of the site.
See an aerial view of the location of the site.
There is a restrictive covenant onsite preventing the installation of wells for drinking water purposes. Homes in the area are on municipal water. EGLE and DHHS have verified there are no residential wells in the area that need to be sampled.
EGLE will continue to work with EPA with future sampling activities at this site.