Information regarding the Degradation of Benthos BUI in Michigan<\/b><\/p>\n
In the Stage 1 RAP<\/a>, it was noted that the benthic community health on the Michigan side of the river was good, and benthic organisms requiring clean water were observed along the Michigan shoreline, except on the north side of Sugar Island and in localized portions of Lake Nicolet.<\/p>\n In Michigan, two major clean-ups make up the progress on this BUI:\u00a0the Tannery Bay Superfund site, and the Consumers Energy Manufactured Gas Plant site. The Tannery Bay remedial action report can be found here: Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a>, and Part 3<\/a>. You can also see the EPA Fact Sheet about Tannery Bay here.<\/a>\u00a0USEPA is finalizing monitoring and expects to remove Tannery Bay from the National Priorities List (the Superfund list) in 2017.<\/a>\u00a0The Consumers Energy Manufactured Gas Plant site was cleaned up under the authority of the Great Lakes Legacy Act, and the final report on its clean-up (and a brief summary) can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Guidance for Delisting for Degradation of Benthos BUI<\/a>\u00a0is available for reference; however, BPAC has adopted local criteria for delisting this BUI. Under the BPAC’s local criteria,\u00a0remedial actions for known contaminated sites in both the U.S. and Canada must be undertaken for delisting to occur.<\/p>\n Additional information related to sediments is available at the\u00a0Sediment Assessment and Dredging Materials page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Information regarding the Degradation of Benthos BUI in Michigan In the Stage 1 RAP, it was noted that the benthic community health on the Michigan side of the river was Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1941\/revisions\/4213"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}