Dow/Community Advisory Panel Meeting Flip Charts

September 3, 2003

Specific Ideas

• Not necessary to do additional testing.
• Would like to see people tested before wildlife.
• Provide dust masks for park mowing.
• Question effectiveness of handwashing.
• Dow and DEQ need to propose recommendations on how to disrupt exposure routes.
• Opening day of Walleye season – get samples to understand levels.
• Saginaw Township newsletter 2 times per year could include dioxin information.
• Get human exposure sampling done.
• Do (human) testing of anyone who wants it.
• Information on how dermal study would be done.
• Advertise turkey/deer testing
• With where to deliver them
• Do we need fat only
• Create task force to develop materials for Information Centers.
• Common sense facts about how to reduce exposures.
• Support exposure study.
• Use hunting licenses to inform about testing and for education.
• Do mapping in Midland, too (airborne exposures).
• Community education through schools, township newsletters.
• Stop pushing health assessment and delays.
• Get activities going.
• Close down Festival Park until exposure pathways are eliminated.
• Move Bark Park and rope off sections of Imerman Park.
• Expand beyond deer/turkey to mice, rabbits, etc.
• Groundcovers in parks and other potential areas (also wildlife habitat improvement).
• Signage in Midland parks.
• Softball fields (Waterworks Park) closed until testing is done, then decide what to do with park.
• Where has everything been buried in Midland - publish.
• Ask health department directors not to use the information on sources of dioxin intake being quoted currently.
• Separate health & environmental activities to move more quickly on environmental issues.
• Consider township offices for information centers.
• Focus on elimination of contamination

• areas above 90 ppt that require some level of action.

• Create barriers in areas of parks that are high.
• Implement those areas OK’d by MDEQ &/or MDCH.
• DEQ provide clarification on whether wash stations and fish sampling are good idea or not.
• Open up exposure study behind current scope.
• Define PPT so people understand what it is (education using experts).
• Address farming community in terms of dust control.
• Don’t shut down Festival Park – contain/decking/etc. instead.
• Share mapping with local authorities.
• DEQ meet with real estate community on the facilities label – for all properties.
• Continue extensive health testing plans.
• Create way for people to contact Dow about health testing.
• Do health study & bioavailability as soon as possible.
• Concerned about dredge spoils in Zilwaukee Township.
• Get all the information in every township office.
• Phase 3 testing results ASAP to include James Township.
• Blood sampling in James Township (include Betty Damore).
• Signage in West MI and Boat Launch (Center Road) should be bigger.
• Info containers (brochures) were empty – make sure they’re kept full.
• Provide info to workers in floodplain soils now.
• Community access – state as clearinghouse for information in Information Center.
• Table Probabilistic Risk Assessment until issues resolved.
• Wildlife – include invertebrates, earthworms, etc.
• Provide groundskeeping service in appropriate clothing during high-dust periods.
• Dredge Tittabawassee River for barge traffic for dredge spoils.
• Dow property listing and current agriculture use.
• Historical uses of Dow property along Tittabawassee River.
• Teach no-till farming and provide equipment.