City of Cadillac responds to EPA’s 5-year review of Superfund site clean

CADILLAC — The City of Cadillac is reacting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 5-year Review of the Cadillac Superfund Site.

The report centers around the clean-up of historical industrial hexavalent chromium from the former Northernaire Plating Superfund site and volatile organic compounds from the Kysor Superfund site.

The city cites that it, and the agency set up to clean-up the Superfund sites, the Local Development Finance Authority (LDFA), are not responsible parties, but have acted in a proactive and responsible manner as issues have arisen. The city says this an effort to refute claims being made on social media to the contrary.

The City of Cadillac says its utilities department, along with the LDFA have taken action to evaluate the effectiveness of the Superfund cl