EPA to Return to St. Clair Shores to Update PCB Investigation

The Environmental Protection Agency will return to St. Clair Shores Monday to update the community on the on-going investigation of the PCB contamination in the 10 Mile drain system.

According to a newsletter sent to residents, the EPA is moving into an examination stage of the investigation and will include additional soil and sediment sampling in the drain system.

The EPA will also request to take soil samples from "some residential properties along the Lange and Revere canals and selected properties on Bon Brae Street," according to the newsletters.

To conduct the residential soil samples, the EPA "must get a signed access agreement from the property owners," the newsletter stated.

Representatives from the EPA, state and local officials will attend a pair of open houses, and a public meeting, to update residents and discuss the next stage of the investigation.

A pair of open houses will be held at the St. Clair Shores Library from 10 a.m. to noon and 4 to 6 p.m. Monday. A public meetign will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the city council chambers in City Hall.

The chemicals were first discovered in 2001, when soil samples were taken prior to dredging the Lange and Revere canals.

The EPA worked with the city, county and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to determine the contamination came from the 10 Mile storm sewer.