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Michigan’s PFAS
Response
Lake St. Clair
Tracy Kecskemeti
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Southeast Michigan District Office
248-200-6469
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PFAS – What’s in a Name?
• PFAS – Per and Polyfluoroakyl substances
• Previously called PFCs for Perfluorinated Compounds
• But PFCs can also mean Perfluorocarbons associated with
greenhouse gases
• PFAS, PFOS, PFOA
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PFAS 101
What are PFAS?
• Group of chemicals used globally during the past
half century in manufacturing, firefighting, and
thousands of commercial and industrial uses.
• Stable, persistent and mobile
• Bioaccumulative
• Potential adverse health effects
• Emerging Contaminant
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Use of PFAS
Chemicals and
PharmaceuticalsElectronicsAerospace Apparel
Building and
Construction
Aqueous Film
Forming FoamSemiconductorsOil & Gas Energy
Healthcare and
Hospitals
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Known Sites
• Ensuring safe drinking water
• Ensuring safe fish consumption
• Determining extent of problem
• Finding & eliminating sources
• Working on remedies
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Proactive efforts
• Public drinking water supplies
• Surface Water
• Ambient water sampling
• Fish collection
• Wastewater
• Industrial Pre-treatment Program
• Biosolids
• Landfills
• Laboratory
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Criteria and Guidelines
PFOS +
PFOA
PFOS PFOA
Drinking Water 70 ppt 70 ppt 70 ppt
Groundwater 70 ppt 70 ppt 70 ppt
Surface Water
Drinking Water Sources
Non-drinking Water Sources
N/A
11 ppt
12 ppt
420 ppt
12,000 ppt
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Parts Per Trillion
21
Note: 1 Olympic Pool = 660,000 gallons
1 ppt = 1
drop
(0.05mL) in
20 Olympic
Swimming
Pools
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Lake St. Clair
• Water quality sampling
• Drinking water
• Source Investigations
• Fish consumption
• Recreation
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Public Drinking Water Testing
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What’s next?
• Continue source identification efforts
• Additional sampling in the Clinton River
• Work with Selfridge ANGB on short term
and long term solutions
• Completion of Public Water Supply testing
• Resampling of surface water intakes