Public health assessment for Packaging Corporation of America, Filer City, Manistee County, Michigan, Region 5, Cerclis No. MID980794747. Final report
The Packaging Corporation of America site located in Stronach Township, Manistee County, Michigan, was the site of eight lagoons used from 1951 to 1974 for the disposal of liquid wastes from a Packaging Corporation of America corrugated cardboard plant in nearby Filer City, Michigan. Wastes from the lagoons have seeped into the groundwater and produced a plume of discolored groundwater (black water), that contains organic chemicals and heavy metals, that extends from the site to nearby Manistee Lake. The site poses an indeterminate public health hazard under current conditions, since actual surface material has not been sampled. Based on the results of shallow sub-surface soil samples, trespassers are not likely to experience significant exposure to the chemicals on the site.
- Research Organization:
- Michigan Dept. of Public Health, Lansing, MI (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 128196
- Report Number(s):
- PB-95-271508/XAB; TRN: 53032387
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: See also PB--90-104647; PBD: 19 Sep 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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