NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory | Sampling shoreline muck in Lake St. Clair, September 24, 2012. Credit: NOAA. | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sampling_shoreline_muck_in_Lake_St._Clair_%288741968224%29.jpg | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Efforts to clean up the Ten Mile Drain Superfund site in St. Clair Shores advance as the EPA plans to excavate a polluted storm sewer system summer 2024. PCB contamination, linked to illegal dumping, poses health risks and threatens Lake St. Clair. Lake St. Clair provides recreational boating access for approximately 125 homes and is also used for swimming and fishing.
Cleanup, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, targets residential and commercial properties. PCBs, banned in 1979, persist in the environment, posing health hazards. The costly cleanup aims to mitigate these risks and safeguard public health.