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fact sheet
90 ppt: the science behind Michigan's dioxin RDCC
How to increase your dioxin levels by
3,900%
ATSDR/MDEQ
Health Consultation : Exposure
Investigation Report:
ATSDR/MDCH
Tittabawassee River Fish Consumption Health Consultation 7/27/05
ATSDR Updated Dioxin Soil Policy Document 11/7/06
ATSDR
Dioxin Soil Policy Fact Sheet 2/17/05
Appraisal of Contaminated
Property in the United States, Munday Associates 2003
Army
Corpof Engineers Saginaw River Dioxin Sediment Test Results (draft) 12/16/04
ATSDR Dioxin Fact Sheet
ATSDR Petitioned Health Consultation Tittabawassee River 051502
Body Burden - The Pollution in People, Mt
Sinai/EWG January 2003
Body Burden - The
Pollution in Newborns, EWG, July 2005
CHEJ
Americans People Dioxin Report
CHEJ
Americans People Dioxin Technical Support Document
CHEJ Americans
People Dioxin Report Research References
CHEJ: Chemical industry's efforts to
keep the truth about dioxin behind closed doors
CHEJ - Back to where we started: Trends in
cleaning up contaminated sites
Contaminants in
Soil:Toxicology data and intake values for humans:Dioxins & Furans : UK EA
Corporate Science
Countering chemical companies hype on
chemical effects on human health
Dioxin background
levels, "Age Specific Dioxin TEQ Reference Range", Patterson, et al
Dioxin background
levels, "Recalculation of U.S. Background Dioxin Blood Serum Levels", David
Linhardt 2005
Dow Knowledge Factories, Are Michigan
Universities defending Dow with silence?
Dow Nightmare
Dow Chemical
multiple personalities - Front Groups
Dow secret ERA
floodplain/sediment testing May 2005
Dow
Tittabawassee River Dioxin/Furan Concentration Vertical Variability May 2005
Dow
Preliminary TR Flow and Solids Monitoring 2003-2004
Dow
Nonanalytical Sampling Activities for the TR May 2005 (14mb )
Dow
Sediment evaluation report-Upper Saginaw River May 2005
Dow Dendrogeomorphic Pilot Study Tittabawassee River Flood Plain May 2005
Dow/MDEQ Corrective Action Consent Order (CACO)110702
DowMDEQ Framework for
an agreement - details -1/20/05
Dow/MDEQ Framework analysis,
David Linhardt, 2/16/05
Dow/MDEQ Framework
Focus Group notes: Tittabawassee Dioxin Community 03/17/05
Dow/MDEQ
Framework Focus Group notes: Midland Dioxin Community 04/06/05
Dow/MDEQ
Framework Focus Group notes: Saginaw Dioxin Community Notes 04/07/05
Dow/MDEQ
Framework Focus Group notes: Bay City Dioxin Community Notes 04/14/05
DowMDEQ Framework for an
agreement -PR -1/19/05
Dow Scope of Work
Dow/Moolenaar House bill 4617 to
remove facility designation from contaminated properties Apr 05 .
Dow/Moolenaar House bill 5963 to
remove facility designation from contaminated properties Jun 04 .
Dow Hazardous Waste
Facility Operating License draft
Dow Hazardous Waste
Facility Operating License Fact Sheet
Dow funded
Exposure & Health Study (part of 110702 CACO)
Dow share holder proxy
vote info Report on Dioxin Risks & Liability Agenda item #5
Dow/Entrix Wild Game Study
Dow worker serum dioxin
levels 071305
Dow:
Pilot study: Oral bioavailability of dioxins/Furans in Midland/Tittabawassee
Flood Plain soils, Feb 2005
Dow:
Follow up Report on Pilot study: Oral bioavailability of dioxins/Furans in Midland/Tittabawassee
Flood Plain soils, Feb 2005
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Serum dioxin levels in former Dow Chlorophenol Workers, David Linhardt, August
2005
Ecology
Center, Lone Tree, TRW temporary restraining order filed against MDEQ/Dow CACO 120502
Egg Report, Joseph
DiGangi, Ph.D., Jindřich Petrlík, M.S. April 2005
EPA: Dow Enforcement
Action Memorandum and Public Comment period comments May 2011
New!
EPA: Dow AOC for
implementation of Interim exposure controls May 2011
New!
EPA: Interim actions proposed for high use floodplain areas January 2011
New!
EPA:
Proposed clean-up plan for Tittabawassee River Island 04/11
EPA: Bay City, Saginaw, Midland Municipal Drinking Water Sampling Post Dredging
12/10
EPA: Bay City, Saginaw, Midland Municipal Drinking Water Sampling Pre Dredging
Re-sampling 11/09
EPA: Bay City, Saginaw, Midland Municipal Drinking Water Sampling Pre Dredging
10/09
EPA-MDEQ Cleanup Negotiations 2009
EPA: Reanalysis of key issues related to dioxin toxicity and response to NAS
comments (691 pages) 05/21/10
EPA: Review of U of M dioxin
study finds it is of limited value in Tittabawassee human exposure evaluation
09/30/09
EPA: FOIA Freedom of Information
Act documents
EPA gag order 06/14/08
EPA:
Accidentally leaked confidential memo outlining Dow's Dioxin deceptions
12/7/07
EPA Pollution Progress Reports on Tittabawassee River
Cleanup Process !
EPA issues demand for Midland dioxin sampling data 08/31/07
EPA Removal Order
to Dow July 2007
EPA: Dow
Chemical must clean up Tittabawassee Hot Spots Immediately June 27, 2007
MDEQ Response
!
EPA River cleanup
methods: Fox River vs Tittabawassee River PowerPoint June 2005 part 1
EPA River cleanup
methods: Fox River vs Tittabawassee River PowerPoint June 2005 part 2
EPA's Dr. Linda Birnbaum
PowerPoint presentation Swan Valley High School, April 2005
EPA's Dr Linda Birnbaum audio presentation
"Dioxin, are we at risk?" December 2002
EPA's Dr. Linda Birnbaum PowerPoint presentation "Dioxin risk
characteristics" January 2003"
EPA's Dr. Linda Birnbaum's presentation
on Dioxin Re-Evaluation July 1993
EPA comments on proposed Saginaw River
dredged material disposal facility, 11/08/04
EPA memo indicating unacceptable risk to public
health and the environment, 7/30/04
EPA comments
on Dow preliminary SOW 082603
EPA comments on Dow RI Work plans - finds them "critically deficient" 2/10/06
EPA objections &
comments on draft MDEQ/Dow CACO of 110702
EPA objections & comments on draft MDEQ/Dow Hazardous Material Waste Management
License of 100702
EPA Dioxin Reassesment Report
NAS Review October 2004
EPA Dioxin reassessment status 102903
EPA's DRAFT reassessment of Dioxin 0402 (Final report due end of 2003, don't
hold your breath!)
Factsheet on
Dow dioxin contamination of Tittabawassee river & flood Plain
Fish Advisory: 2003
Michigan Family Fish Consumption Guide
Fish Advisory: 2004 Michigan
Family Fish Consumption Guide
Fish Advisory: 2007 Michigan
Family Fish Consumption Guide
Fish Advisory:
2007 Saginaw River Fish Consumption Advisory for Saginaw River 11/14/07
Fish
Advisory: 2008 Michigan Family Fish Consumption Guide
Flood
of 1986 Summary
GAO: Environmental Health Risks: Information on EPA's draft reassessment of
dioxins Apr 2002
GeoMorph Study: Final sampling & Analysis Plan Text, Upper Tittabawassee Jul
2006
Governer
Granholm's statement on her veto of Polluter's Free Ride bill HB4617
122705
Institute of Medicine report:
Veterans and agent orange: Update 2002
Lawsuit: Plaintiff initial Complaint
against Dow Chemical 032503
Lawsuit: Plaintiff press
release & Dow brief declaring dioxin is not a health hazard 100103
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff document request responses 100803
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff interrogatory responses 100803
Lawsuit: Dow
discovery response 100803
Lawsuit:
Dow motion to waive filling of transcript 100803
Lawsuit: Dow motion
to stay 100803
Lawsuit:
Dow motion for peremptory reversal 100803
Lawsuit:
Dow motion for immediate consideration 100803
Lawsuit:
Dow emergency application for leave to appeal 100803
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff Motion for partial relief from stay 061605
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff answer to emergency application for leave 102203
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff answer to motion for peremptory reversal 102303
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff answer to motion for stay 102303
Lawsuit: Plaintiff 3rd amended
Complaint against Dow Chemical 120203
Lawsuit: Dow emergency application for leave to appeal 12/10/03
Lawsuit: Dow motion for immediate consideration of it's emergency application 12/10/03
Lawsuit:
Plaintiff's Emergency Motion for Protective Order 12/18/03
Lawsuit: Plaintiff Brief in
support of Class Action Certification (Excerpts) 3/19/04
Lawsuit: Plaintiff Brief in support of Class
Action Certification (Table of Contents) 3/19/04
Lawsuit: Michigan Supreme Court Order
to Stay 06/03/04
Lawsuit: Plaintiff motion for
reconsideration of order staying all further proceedings in circuit court 6/8/04
Lawsuit: Plaintiffs brief to Michigan
Supreme Court in support of Medical Monitoring 9/1/04
Lawsuit: Amicus brief to Michigan Supreme
Court in support of Medical Monitoring 9/1/04
Lawsuit: Michigan Supreme Court
Final Opinion on Medical Monitoring 7/13/05
Lawsuit: Michigan Supreme Court
Dissenting Opinion on Medical Monitoring 7/13/05
Lawsuit: Opinion and
Order Granting Class Certification 10/21/05
Lawsuit: Plaintiffs Memorandum in opposition to defendants motion to stay
proceedings pending appeal 11/04/05
Lawsuit:
Michigan Court of Appeals Grants Plaintiffs (Flood plain residents) Motion
for Class Action Lawsuit 1/25/08
Lawsuit: Michigan Court of Appeals Denies Dow's Motion for Reconsideration
3/14/08
Lawsuit: Opinion denies defendants request for additional discovery 11/9/09
Lawsuit:
Circuit Court: Revised opinion and order of the Court 06/22/10
Lone Tree Council - Press
release 102202: Sweetheart deal
Lone Tree Council - Press release
012405: Groups criticize Dow-Granholm dioxin deal
Lone Tree Council - Press release
02/24/05: Sportsmen appeal to Governor about Dirty Water
Lone Tree Council - Press release
07/10/06: NAS Review: Dioxin still toxic
Michigan Real-estate Seller
Disclosure Form 565-957
Michigan's background dioxin soil
measurements from 68 sites in Upper and Lower peninsulas
Michigan's background dioxin data MDEQ
map November 1999 (large file)
Michigan
Department of Community Health Dioxin Fact Sheet
Michigan Department of
Community Health staff comments on the Dow-DEQ CACO - 112102
Michigan Department of Agriculture food, farming, & gardening dioxin guide
MDCH: "Fish
consumption survey of people fishing and harvesting fish from Saginaw Bay
Watershed 06/14/07"
MDCH PEI protocol: Dioxin
exposure in Adults living in the Tittabawassee River Flood Plain 120103
MDCH PEI: Health
Consultation: Dioxin exposure in adults living in the Tittabawassee River Flood
Plain 11/1/07
MDCH
Proportion of Dioxin exposure from various sources based on EPA data for national average
adult exposures .
MDCH Dioxins in
Wild GameTaken from the Tittabawassee River Floodplain South of Midland, Midland
and Saginaw Counties, Michigan EPA ID# MID980994354 Final Report April 29,
2005
MDEQ Art Nash
requesting AG to doctor illegal CACO document and make it legal 10/11/02
Michigan Asst. Attorney
General warning MDEQ that DOW CACO is illegal 102202
MDEQ Baseline
Chemical Characterization of Saginaw Bay Watershed Sediments 082902
MDEQ Draft
Dow Chemical Hazardous Waste Facility Operation License 102702
MDEQ Fact Sheet Dow
Chemical Hazardous Waste Facility Operation License 102702
MDEQ Supplemental Advisory: Part 201 applicable to property contaminated by
dioxin 062403
MDEQ
Soil Movement Advisory for Private, Public, & Commercial Projects June 2003
MDEQ Final Dow
Chemical Hazardous Waste Facility Operation License 061203
MDEQ
Response to Comments: Dow Hazardous Waste Facility Operation License 061203
MDEQ Final
Report: Phase 2 Tittabawassee/Saginaw River Dioxin Flood Plain Sampling Study (062503
)
MDEQ Response to
Dow's preliminary SOW 8/12/03
MDEQ approved work scope for
IRA evaluating human consumption of wild game 102103
MDEQ Tittabawassee River Aquatic Ecological Risk Assessment Final Report 10/2003
MDEQ letter to local schools
warning to limit student exposure to soils 12/03/03
MDEQ / ATSDR comments on Dow funded
U of M "Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study 3/12/04
GES comments on DWG results
and their support MDEQ Ecological RIsk Assessment 07/2004
MDEQ Flood plain Phase
1 Sampling Report
MDEQ Flood plain Phase 2 Soil
contamination data - includes dioxin fingerprints (very large )
MDEQ
Summary of Phase 2 sampling in Tittabawassee River Flood Plain
MDEQ information about dioxin and the Tittabawassee River flood plain Bulletin
#1 Feb 2002
MDEQ information about
dioxin and the Tittabawassee River flood plain Bulletin #2 Aug 2002
MDEQ information about dioxin
and the Tittabawassee River flood plain Bulletin #3 June 2003
MDEQ information about dioxin and the
Tittabawassee River flood plain Bulletin #4 March 2004
MDEQ Frequently asked questions for owners of property affected by migrating
dioxin contamination July 2005
MDEQ Administrative Rules for Part 201,
Environmental Remediation, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994
PA 451
MDEQ letter to Dow requesting information after catching them in the act of
secret sampling, a direct violation of Dow's Hazardous Waste Management License
May 2005
MDEQ TERA Peer Review
Consultation: Pilot Oral Bioavailability Study September 7, 2005
MSU Empowering
Communities located near contaminated site cleanups participant report Sep 2005
MDEQ Dioxin Data Overview -Shiawassee and Saginaw River Watersheds 2004 EPA
GLNPO 02/09/06
MDEQ
Draft Notice of Deficiency to Dows proposed RIWP 2/10/06
MDEQ Official Notice of
Deficiency to Dows proposed RIWP 3/2/06
MDEQ response to EPA criticism of Dow's RIWP 6/25/07
Newspaper article listing (actual text or scans of many articles
online)
Pollution Signature by Richard A. Maltry. In local libraries, number
628.1. Chronicles Dow's outrageous
disregard for the Tittabawassee River over the last 100 years. Dioxin is just one of
many toxins dumped in the river. Watch out, you might get sick reading it.
Available in local libraries only, not published. criticism
Potential
for Exposure to Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans when Recycling Sewage
Biosolids on Agricultural Land
Radio:
Campaign for a Clean Water Shed ad 2004
Radio: Lone
Tree Council Terry Miller ad against HB4617 2005
Radio:
Lone Tree Council MIchelle Hurd Riddick ad against HB4617 2005
RHWN: Dioxin Reassessed Part 1:
Summary of cancer related health effects of dioxin
RHWN: Dioxin Reassessed Part 2:
Summary of non-cancer related health effects of dioxin
RHWN: Dioxin and PCB's
linked to Endometriosis
RHWN: Dioxin and
Diabetes
Risk Characterization of Dioxin - Dr. Linda
Birnbaum EPA slide show on latest Dioxin Research
Spatial
variations in the incidence of breast cancer and potential risks associated with
soil dioxin contamination in Midland, Saginaw, and Bay Counties, Michigan, USA ;
Environmental Health 2008, 7:49doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-49 Published: 21 October
2008
Suzanne White M.D. presentation on Dioxin toxicity and human health effects
08/20/03
Tittabawassee River Flood Plain Wild Game
Consumption Advisory 09/14/04
Toxic Release:
A Review of Pollution Data & Current Knowledge on the Effects of Toxic Chemicals
Trespass against us - Dow Chemical & the toxic century , Jack Doyle 2004,
ISBN-1-56751-268-2
Trustees of
the Tittabawassee River System Assessment Area (TRSAA) comments on flawed Dow
RIWP work plan 101108
TRSAA report
cover letter 101108
TRW flood plain residents letter to
Michigan House of Representatives committee on Facility HB4617 May
2005
Video: "Mr. Damore goes
to Lansing", documentary 2005 Video: "The Long Shadow",
documentary 2003
Tittabawassee
River Watch www.trwnews.net
