Pall-Gelman Discharge 6/8/2008 - 1019gpm

Discharge point in Honey Creek Tributary where Pall-Gelman dumps the partially treated purgewater from its dioxane cleanup.

The initial discharge in 1997 was up to 300 gallons per minute, then that was increased to 800 gpm, and later increased to the current 1200 gpm.

This has resulted in constant high water in the tributary near the discharge point and in the adjacent wetland. The wetland has turned into a pond killing much of the original wetland vegetation.

Some of the high water backs up to the highly contaminated Marshy Area where some of the dioxane there is likely leaching down to groundwater aquifers... unmonitored and untreated.

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Tags:

• Pall
• Gelman
• dioxane
• groundwater
• contamination
• pollution
• cleanup
• discharge
• 2008