EPA sets location of Dow dioxin meeting for Saginaw Valley State University
 by The Bay City Times Tuesday June 02, 2009, 5:45 PM

The location and time of a June 17 informational meeting on the Dow dioxin cleanup has been announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson mentioned the upcoming meeting in a statement released last month about the agency's position on historical pollution by the Dow Chemical Co. of Midland.

The meeting has now been scheduled for 6:30 p.m. June 17 at Curtiss Hall at Saginaw Valley State University.

Jackson said last month that her agency plans to take a leadership role in seeing that Dow conducts a comprehensive cleanup of harmful pollutants discharged in past years to the Saginaw Bay watershed.

An EPA official could not be reached for comment this week, but a recent meeting notice published by the agency says the meeting is to update residents and answer questions "about new developments in the cleanup of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers and Saginaw Bay."

At the meeting, the EPA also will present details of its plan, including milestones and schedules for achieving "a comprehensive and expeditious cleanup," the meeting notice says.

More information is online at www.epa.gov/region5/sites/dowchemical

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