… in the city’s groundwater. From 1966 to 1986, Gelman Sciences of Ann Arbor manufactured medical filters using dioxane, a potentially dangerous organic compound, subsequently contaminating…
… the city’s surrounding groundwater with the toxic substance 1,4-dioxane. Gelman, acquired by Pall Life Sciences in 1997, is currently held by the Danaher Corporation, who acquired it…
…3 NEWS Thursday, June 28, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com City faces legal costs for Gelman dioxane plume Contract with law firm now $445,000 By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Summer Daily News…
… Editor Ann Arbor City Council will see an increase in legal costs regarding clean-up efforts of the 1,4 dioxane plume con- taminating the area’s ground- water. 1,4 dioxane is a carcinogen- ic organic…
… customers should not have been the businesses, but the people of this great state,” Petainen added. 1,4-dioxane has been linked to cancer and can cause nervous, liver and kidney damage in large…
… amounts. The Environmental Protection Agency linked a dioxane concentration of 3.5 parts per billion in groundwater to a one in 100,000 incidence rate of cancer in a 2010 report. According to…
… manufacturing plant, located off Wagner Road between Jackson and Liberty streets. A 1988 lawsuit, filed by the DNR, charges Gelman with permit- ting the potentially carcinogenic solvent, 1,4-dioxane, to leak…
… dioxane. The DNR's demand for Gelman to restore the site to pre-contamination levels is unfair, Levitt said, because the cost would be exorbitant and other parties were involved. "We feel we were not alone…
… dioxane plume — a widely debated city issue — while Warpehoski insists city and county authorities pursue the federal option only if it can be better handled by federal authorities than by Michigan…
…- tration devices. Gelman used to use dioxane in its production and is cur- rently being sued for "ground water contamination." Bob Buker, vice president of cor- porate communications for Gelman, said…
