Velsicol

Each day, 20,000 gallons of contaminated water is removed from the Pine River containing the toxins that still leak from the site 45 years after the plant closed in St. Louis, Michigan.

Next week, crews will begin a project to remove contamination from a former burn pit used by Velsicol in mid-Michigan for decades.

St. Louis, Michigan still recovering 50 years after PBB contamination

The former Velsicol Chemical Company plant is the site of the infamous 1973 mix-up that resulted in the chemical PBB getting into the food supply. The plant is now entering a new stage of cleanup that should reduce contamination.

Federal officials held a meeting on July 27 to share their clean-up plan for the former Velsicol Plant in St. Louis, Michigan.

Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy plans to test the soil from an abandoned rail bed near the former Velsicol Chemical Co. plant…

The Environmental Protection Agency says it has cleaned some 100-thousand pounds of environmental waste from a Gratiot county superfund site, with no end…

The EPA has awarded nearly 10 million dollars to begin cleanup of the old Velsicol chemical plant in Saint Louis, in Gratiot County. Local advocates said…