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  • Water Fest sure to make a splash!
    July 8, 2017
    Bring your favorite lawn chair to Mill Pond Park on Sunday July 9th for the Chippewa River Water Festival! The free concert will run from 12pm to 9pm. Location/Directions: Mill Pond Park 607 S Adams st Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Millpond+Park/ Check out the fb event https://www.facebook.com/events/1392219884178741 Performers and Guest Speakers: Steve & Mae Pego – Stories & Water Ceremony Open Range Alicia Patch Oldham – Michigan Poet Stephanie Terpening Lynn Dominguez – American Canoe Association The Mudpuppys Jeff Ostahowski – MCWC Hawks & Owls Mark Cole – Walk for Water Barbarossa Brothers Mystic Dub Outreach Education & Vendors Grand Rapids Water Protectors Little Forks Conservancy Naturally Yours By Well Oiled Mama Chippewa Nature Center Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum Photography by Lorena Smith Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation Explore Chiropractic Designed Henna Tattoos American Canoe Association Canoe Reflections Canoe-Camping for Women Marilyn Richmond Cards & Jewelry Greentree Co-Op Pita Pit Los Jalapenos Sponsors and Supporters Watershed Initiative Network Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Isabella Community Credit Union Kerr & Utt Trust & Estate, Elder Law Firm, PLLC Hometown Health Foods Mt Pleasant Parks and Recreation D Clare Services T-Shirt Graphic Design Contest winning entry by Spencer Wehner CACC would like to extend a hearty THANK YOU to everyone who has helped make this festival a reality! See you there! Extra special thanks to our co-coordinators Taylor Hollis – Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, Carol Moody – Mt Pleasant Parks & Rec, and Liz Busch – Buckley’s Mountainside Canoes Want to help CACC continue this and other great programs? Make a tax deductible donation today! [paypal_donation_button]
  • Public EPA Hearing Clare, Michigan – Enhanced Oil Recovery
    June 29, 2017
    The proposed operation would inject perfectly good clean water into an oilfield in order to increase production. The injection process increases the pressure in the underground oil reserve, and more oil may become available at nearby wells. EPA is seeking comments on the Holcomb 1-22 well, draft permit number MI-035-2R-0034. PUBLIC MEETING Thursday, July 25 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Public EPA hearing 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Clare High School 201 E. State St. Clare, Michigan The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to allow Muskegon Development Company, 1425 South Mission Road, Mount Pleasant, Michigan to inject fluid underground by approving the company’s application for what EPA calls a Class II injection well permit. If EPA makes its approval final, Muskegon Development Company may inject fresh water for enhanced oil recovery into a rock formation 4948 feet below the surface through the Holcomb 1-22 injection well near N. Athey and E. Townline Lake Roads in Hamilton Township of Clare County. [caption id="attachment_1017" align="aligncenter" width="1333"] Holcomb 1-22 wellhead – Photo provided by anonymous source[/caption] Muskegon Development Company has also applied for a permit from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). EPA received requests for a public hearing on this proposed permit approval. EPA will hold a public meeting and hearing Tuesday, July 25. During the hearing, you will have an opportunity to make oral comments or submit written comments. EPA will consider all comments it receives, and then issue a final decision along with a response to the significant comments. The new public comment period ends Friday, July 28. CACC is working with Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation to bring this issue to the public’s attention, educate the public about this and other injection wells, and to support public comment at the EPA meeting. See the facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1876805665903238  and stay tuned for more information…
  • Water Fest receives WIN Grant
    June 20, 2017
    Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination is pleased to announce that the Chippewa River Water Festival will be be receiving an “Action Grant” from the Watershed Initiative Network.   The grant will support the Chippewa River Water Festival’s mission of creating a family friendly and fun opportunity to learn about water and water conservation. The CRWF will take place on Sunday, July 9th, at Island Park in Mt. Pleasant, MI. More information about the event can be found at https://www.facebook.com/ChippewaRiverWaterFest/.   The Watershed Initiative Network (WIN) is a volunteer organization that focuses on opportunities to better link the economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of Saginaw Bay communities in order to sustain and improve the region’s quality of life.   Twelve area foundations and corporations work together as a Network to support WIN projects.  This Funders Network includes:  Bay Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation, Midland Area Community Foundation, Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation, The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, The S.C. Johnson Fund, the Cook Family Foundation,the Charles Steward Mott Foundation, and the Saginaw Bay Foundation.  More information about WIN is available on its website at www.saginawbaywin.org.  
  • Line 5 advisory board meeting 3/13 – Wear blue!
    March 6, 2017
    Line 5. We all know the 63 year old oil pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinaw. (Well, most of us. More and more each day.) We all know how this line is operated by Enbridge, the same company that let nearly one million gallons of oil spill into the Kalamazoo River. We all want Line 5 shut down. This is the summer we turn up the heat; beginning March 13th at noon. Show up and demand or support a decision for the immediate shut down of line 5! The rally will begin at noon, the meeting begins at 1:30. WEAR BLUE!!! – Wear blue clothing in support of a healthy Great Lakes Basin! The meeting will be held at 7109 West Saginaw Highway Lansing, Mi in the Lake Michigan Room.  Previous agendas and meeting minutes can be found here A facebook event has been created by Fen Valley Earth First!, and can be found here Oil And Water Don’t Mix have also put out a public call-out Want to speak during the meeting? Email simonsh@michigan.gov to register for the public comment session. Check out FLOW‘s new fact sheet for some ideas. Even if you can’t or don’t want to speak during the meeting, showing up and holding a sign outside will help, and let’s pack the meeting hall with people dressed in blue as a show of solidarity for clean water! Thanks to models from the Graham Sustainability Institute at University of Michigan, we know what a Line 5 spill would look like. Devastating. Watch below: