Rebecca Esselman 08/16/2022 Pollution Lesson Learned, Stronger Protections Needed It is with great relief that most of the hexavalent chromium solution that Tribar Technologies released into Wixom’s Wastewater Treatment… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 08/03/2022 Pollution Another Toxic Spill from Tribar Technologies in Wixom, MI Yesterday we learned that the Huron River has been impacted by a major contamination event. Several thousand gallons of hexavalent… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 11/05/2020 Pollution HRWC Supports Proposed Cleanup of 1,4 dioxane in Gelman Case/Lawsuit Acceptance of Consent Judgment conditioned on continuing involvement in oversight In 2017, the Huron River Watershed Council joined the court… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 09/01/2020 Pollution Public Release of Proposed Consent Judgement for 1,4-dioxane Groundwater Contamination In 2017, the Huron River Watershed Council joined the case between Gelman Sciences and the State of Michigan to renegotiate… Read More »
Daniel Brown 07/29/2020 PFAS Michigan Sets Drinking Water Standards for Seven PFAS Chemicals Michigan is set to enact new PFAS drinking water standards (known as Maximum Contaminant Levels or MCLs) after rules setting… Read More »
Anita Daley 08/17/2019 Pollution Microplastics and You HRWC is Getting the word out about microplastics in the Huron River and Great Lakes Check out our new videos… Read More »
Daniel Brown 01/30/2019 PFAS Quacker Tracker 2018 In this post, we’ll provide a brief summary of the legislation we were most closely following during the 2018 lame… Read More »
Daniel Brown 11/19/2018 PFAS PFAS in Fish, Game, and Homegrown Foods PFAS can accumulate in the game species we harvest, the fish we catch, and the fruits and vegetables we grow…. Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 11/17/2017 Coal Tar News to Us This edition of News to Us provides news coverage on several major threats to freshwater including plastics, pharmaceuticals, invasive species,… Read More »
Stevi Kosloskey 10/26/2017 Animals HRWC gets help from the dogs! Investigating Honey Creek HRWC, with funding from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, is working to identify and control or… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 07/31/2017 Climate change On the chopping block: clean water *** UPDATE: On August 16, 2017, the EPA and the Army extended the comment period by 30 days for the… Read More »
Stevi Kosloskey 07/18/2017 Monitoring 2017 Water Quality Monitoring Season Marks Halfway Point In March, HRWC’s Water Quality Monitoring Program began the season with a volunteer orientation where we introduced what we do… Read More »