KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team has confirmed an EPA Superfund site in downtown Kalamazoo has pervasive PFAS contamination.
MPART announced Tuesday that the former Auto Ion Chemicals site on Mills Street has shown elevated levels of PFAS compounds well beyond the state’s safety levels.
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The site, sandwiched between East Michigan Avenue and the Kalamazoo River, has been heavily polluted for more than a century now. According to MPART, it served as a coal-burning electrical generating station from 1914 to 1956.
From 1964 through 1973, it was the home to Auto Ion Chemicals, which treated chromium plating and electroplating waste — two well-known PFAS polluters…