Your Plainfield Township Drinking Water has been contaminated with Toxic Chemicals from the Federal

Clean Up Landfill Site. The Plainfield Charter Township was notified of this by the MDNR in 1983, The
EPA further notified the Plainfield Charter Township in 1985. It is my belief as resident during that time
that we were not properly notified according to the Federal Law. A toxic leak affecting our public
drinking water requires public notice so we can make informed decisions about our health to protect
our families, additional notices are required in both in media and print until the situation is resolved.

The Public Notice is the law that keeps you safe, It is the one that alerts you there is a major issue. Any
Failure to make public notice a health risk must be addressed.

MLive Published an article updated Sep.7, 2017 titled Tannery waste dumped at landfill tied to
municipal water pollution. The article outlines how the Federal Cleanup landfill continues to
contaminate the public water. Within this article is an important map everyone should look at very
closely. It has the Well locations for all of Plainfield Townships Water Wells, the landfill location, as well
as what is called a Ground Water Instituional Control Boundary which encompasses 800 acres of the
superfund site and all of the Plainfield township wells located at Versluis Lake. A Ground Water
institutional Control Boundary means you cant drill new wells. On 08/27/1997 Plainfield township
Drilled 2 new Wells at Versluis knowing the site was contaminated.

These contaminated wells were in operation serving your drinking water from 1964-to the Middle of
2016. These contaminants have not all been retested for.

The MDNR reported in 1983 finding the following in Plainfield Township Water:

Trichloroethylene
1.2 DICHLOROETHANE
CIS-1.2 DICHLOROETHYLENE
1.1 DICHLOROETHANE
XYLENE

The EPA reported in 1985 finding the following in Plainfield Township Water:

Trans 1.2 DICHLOROETHYLENE

ETHYLBENZENE
XYLENES
BARIUM
NICKEL
The Plainfield Township in 2013 reported finding the following in Plainfield Township Water:

1.4 Dioxane Over the EPA Health Advisory

Chromium Hexavalent
Molybdenum
Perfluoroctane Sulfonate Near the EPA Health Advisory
Strontium
Vandium
1.1 Dichloroethane

In 2016 for some reason unknown Plainfield Township went out of their way and repeated the tests
and yielded lower results.

In a Nutshell there is no arguing the Plainfield Township Municipal Tapwater has been contaminated by
a Toxic Leak from the State Disposal Landfill.

So what has the EPA and MDEQ been doing with cleaning up the superfund site since 1984?

According to the EPA

What Is the Current Site Status?

The remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) for the landfill and the impacted groundwater is
ongoing. In the spring of 2000, site PRPs submitted the FS and a Remedial Action Plan (RAP). The state
reviewed these reports and determined that the RAP was incomplete for the landfill and that the
proposed RAP for the groundwater, which included monitored natural attenuation, was unacceptable
and needed to be revised. MDEQ continues to work with the PRPs to develop and implement effective
cleanup strategies for the site.

Cleanup has also included a number of interim strategies to protect human health and the environment.
From 1985 to 1991, residences with affected residential wells received alternative water supplies in the
form of bottled water and point-of-use devices. In 1991, some of the affected residences received
connections to the public water supply. Additionally, the landfills remedy has included installation of a
cap, gas vents and fencing. In 2006, the PRP group upgraded the landfill cap and leachate collection
system.
This Is the Timeline of Accomplishments for the Cleanup of the Landfill.

Preliminary Assessment 09/01/1984

Added to the National Priorities List 02/21/1990
Remedial Action Plan Started 05/09/2005
Remedy Selected NOT ACHIEVED

This is why your immediate attention is needed:

The EPA is by law only allowed to regulate 90 Contaminants For the EPA to regulate and pass laws for a
new contaminant they must remove one contaminant by law. This is not the EPAs Fault, they have not
been able to add a new contaminant in over 20 years.

In 1999 The federal government passed the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule refered to as
UCMR. This rule required Municipal Water Supplies serving more than 10,000 people to test for 30
contaminants of the EPAs choice every 5 years.

UCMR1 Began January 1, 2001 and took place for any contiuous 12 month period through December 31,
2003 It contained an assortment of toxic chemicals. Those results should be published in the 2004 Water
Quality Report if anyone would like to Foia this please I would appreciate it.

UCMR2 Began January 1, 2008 and took place for any continuous 12 month period through December 1,
2010 The RESULTS WERE NOT REPORTED IN THE 2011 or the 2012 WATER QUALITY REPORT AND I AM
UNABLE TO FIND IN THE EPA DATABASE IF THE ANALYSIS EVEN OCCURED

UCMR2 Tested for

Two Insecticides
Five Flame Retardants
Three Explosives
Three Parent Acetanilides
Six Acetanilide Degradates
Six Nitrosamines

We have not been notified of the results as required by Safe Drinking Water Act.

UCMR3 Began January 1, 2103 and took place for any 12 month continuous period through December 1,
2015. Plainfield township did their Testing in 2013 The results showed PFOAS and 1.4 Dioxane Near or
exceeding the EPA Health Advisory (Since they are unable to pass any laws this is all we get) by nearly
double.
In 2016 Plainfield Township decided to test again for Pfoas. This test yielded a lower result. It is my
belief that the lower was due to some or all of the Versluis wells being taken offline for Sampling and
returned to operation afterwards. I make that statement based in part on this document and the final
operation date stated by the board. The Versluis Wellfields Daily Flowrate for the Day they performed
their 2016 Test should be Foia requested by someone and looked into to see if the Versluis well field
was indeed taken offline for the test.
These two documents bring us up to date. Of the 90 Contaminants the EPA is allowed to regulate.
Plainfield Township has been in Maximum Contaminant Level Violation the last 3 Assessed Quarters
(The current Quarter is not complete).

Public Health Notice was required within 30 days of learning of the violation. This did not occur. The
MDEQ Sent This notice Below.
Public Notice for our Health Still did not Occur and for some unidentified reason this took place, We
know from the previous documents The township was aware of the violation on September 30,2016.
Not November 3rd.
What Proceeded Next I feel is a clear Violation of the Law and feel the Attorney General should look
into.The Plainfield Charter Township Filed this Pubilc Health Notice With the EPA.
Then circulated this notice to the media and a few residents in its place.
You can see what I refer to as the fraudulent Public Notice being held in the hands of the media in this
news report by Wood TV8 downplaying the situation.

http://woodtv.com/2017/01/31/plainfield-township-alerts-residents-of-water-concern/

Every Plainfield Township Municipal Water Customer by law should have received the notice submitted
by the government a minimum of 2 times (taking into account MDEQs extension for uncited reasons).

Water Quality Reports **MAJOR ISSUES WITH CONTENT AND DELIVERY**

Plainfield Township Customer should of received a copy of the Water Quality Report as required by law.

The Purpose of the report is to give you the test results for contaminants found in the water.

**Take Note the Form states Hand delivery to all customers. Plainfield Township filled in the blank
Various single bill customers and chose to deliver to the following.
Plainfield Township Municipal Water Supply Serves 42,000 customers and these are the ones that got
Water Quality Reports meant to protect our health?
 The latest report makes the following claims,

In a matter of only a few decades, drinking water has become exponentially safer and more reliable
than at any other point in human history. Our exceptional staff continues to work hard every dayat
any hourto deliver the highest quality drinking water without interruption.

The Water Treatment Plant was originally constructed in 1963 and expanded over the years to draw
from this underground water supply that is constantly being resupplied with water from rain and
upgradient aquifer flow

our water system had a susceptibility rating of high due to the geological characteristics of the soils
around our wells. The importance of protecting the Townships well fields cannot be overemphasized. If
a release of pollutants occurs on the ground near our wells, it will travel very quickly toward these wells
and the Grand River. We have enacted a Wellhead Protection Ordinance, and a map of the Wellhead
Protection Zone can be viewed through the links located on the Townships website (www.plainfieldmi.
org). We have no contamination violations, and our wells meet all standards for construction. If you
would like to review the Source Water Assessment Plan, please feel free to contact our office during
regular office hours.

Their Test Results Show Violations contradicting the above statements.

The Well Head Protection Program needs some serious looking into, if someone has some free time
please read through it and ask yourself why the Superfund Landfill which has been identified as
contaminating the wells is not drawn in the protection zone to be monitored? The Wells are included in
the Groundwater Control 800 Acre Superfund Cleanup Map by the EPA. Seriously someone look into
this more.

There is an additional program called The Plainfield Protector, If anyone has time do a little research and
see how much money has been spent through this program and the wellhead protection program to
keep our water safe.

So here you are, you have all this data. What does it mean to the customers of Plainfield Township
Municipal Water? Simply put the Following.

Your Drinking water has contained toxic chemicals from the landfill documented from 1983-
2016

If you watered your lawn with water from Plainfield township you have contaminated your
own ground aquifier with PFOS. Think of PFOS as ping pong balls, whether you throw 10 a day
in your yard or 60 you have a yard full of ping pong balls. They dont break down, as it rains
they collect in your grounds water aquifier the same they do in your body. It just builds up.
What can you do? Demand Action! Attend the Board Meeting, file notices with the Attorney General
for investigation here. Report this to the EPA here Help us research Share and get the word out. Not
to diminish Flints issues, but they were only dealing with 1 contaminant. We are dealing with an
entire Landfill literally where our township gets its water from. This arial photo shows both well sites,
just up hill is the landfill

Who am I? I moved to the Plainfield Township Water System in 1979, at age 6 I began having Health
issues with unknown causes, I have had numerous surgeries, hospital visits and diagnosis throughout
my life termed idiopathic or unknown Origins. I was declared disabled at 27 years old. Prior to being
declared disabled I was a Senior Lab Tech For Lacks industries where I reported my results to the
MDEQ and EPA . This issue is important to me , I hope you take it seriously. This was the Health Study
that linked my personal health conditions to Pfas it may be of help to someone else
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4233295/#!po=46.7742