Merit Energy Site

In fall of 2015, Merit Energy decided to end natural gas operations at their site off of Lone Tree Road and Pleasant Valley Road, south of M-59. While dismantling the station and conducting necessary testing, it was discovered that detectable levels of the chemical sulfolane was present in the earth beneath and around the gas plant, in the groundwater beneath the excavation site and at just one of the seven monitoring wells surrounding the site. The sulfolane impact to groundwater appears localized to the site and there is no evidence that residential groundwater is impacted at this time.

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