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Thanks, Mike. Reporter aiso wanted to know if there was @ way to link this siory to Flint ~ any chance the river water there may be more corrosive because of a sail issue. JEFF heads up.

Today | was interviewed by Rebecca Thiele of public radio WKAR-Kalamazoo. The interview was prompted by the findings of Western Michigan University, Carla Koretsky, regarding the impact of road salt on a small deep kettle lake within the City of Kalamazoo. We are funding a CMI monitoring grant for Dr. Koretsky to conduct additional assessment of several urban lakes and the associated watersheds. | provided the reporter with the 2 attached reports and the link for a another report prepared by the USGS These reports all have sections devoted to chlorides and correlate high chloride concentrations in lakes and streams with urban land use. Questions-roughly & answers- briefly-no particular order 1. From the 2007 NLA report, Mi lakes have higher conductivities and chloride concentrations than lakes nationally and within the upper Midwest ecoregion. Why? Speculated that compared to the rest of nation, particularly compared to the southern states, we have more sources including road salt. Compared to other states in the upper Midwest ecoregion we have more lakes in urbanized watersheds. 2. Will monitoring be conducted at other Kettle Lakes with urbanized watersheds to document the extent of the problem? Acknowledged that elevated chloride levels have been documented in urbanized areas of Michigan and concentrations in Woods Lake in Kalamazoo are problematic which is why we are funding additional work to document the extent of the problem and sources. We will routinely continue to monitor Michigan’s resources for chlorides but the site specific nature of the problem precludes specific sampling for the issue. We do not have a Water Quality Standard for chloride but we have not identified toxicity issues where elevated concentrations have been found. 3. Will construction of roadside retention ditches solve the problem? Explained that best management practices for the typical NPS pollutants our agency addresses may not be appropriate for salt. | made sure the reporter had a contact in MDOT. Air date for the story is unknown. Mike Walterhouse, Environmental Quality Specialist Lake Michigan Unit Surface Water Assessment Section Water Resources Division, MDEQ 517-284-5548 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails21_b0311_0647_0648_2

10 Day Ext. Issued Date: Thursday, November 05, 2015 4:11:58 PM After further review of this request with Liane Shekter Smith, the records pertaining to this FOIA are not with the Director or me. They are with the ODWMA. Therefore, to the best of my technical knowledge, | do not have any records to produce. Thanks. Mary Beth Mary Beth Thelen Management Assistant to Director Dan Wyant Department of Environmental Quality Constitution Hall, 6th Floor South Phone: 517-284-6712 or 284-6700 (new numbers) Fax: 517-241-7401 [email protected]

10 Day Ext. Issued Date: Thursday, November 05, 2015 2:41:38 PM | don’t fully understand what they are asking for. Most will be in the Lansing district or Office of Drinking Water. However, with that said, | probably have documents in my file and will provide them with what | provide to the other FOIAs. Please mark it as at least 4 hours of review and search time. Thanks. Mary Beth Mary Beth Thelen Management Assistant to Director Dan Wyant Department of Environmental Quality Constitution Hall, 6th Floor South Phone: 517-284-6712 or 284-6700 (new numbers) Fax: 517-241-7401 [email protected]

Day Ext. Issued Importance: High | didn’t receive your response to this FOIA request and need it ASAP so | can do a cost estimate. Thanks!

Steve asked that I add the address to the school. ] have done so on the attached version. I also added page numbers. Heather Feuerstein Management Assistant to Maggie Pallone, Deputy Director and Brad Wurfel, Communications Director Department of Environmental Quality 517.284.6715 xxxEND_PAGE:deq14_b0801_2659_2659_1

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My only responsive records are attached. | spent 1 hr searching for these records. Brad Wurfel Communications Director Michigan Department of Environmental Quality 517-284-6713 xxxEND_PAGE:deq15_b279_1174_1174_1

FOIA 15-585 Part 2 55pgs (12).pdf; ATTOO003.htm

Can you send me his bio.. Q; What does DEQ do? Q: How did you get interested in envronmental issues? what was your first job? Q: How safe do you think Michigan's Great Lakes,waterways,streams are today.... And how compare to 10 or 20 year ago? Q: Enbridge Pipeline 5--- task force came out with its report.. You were involved... What was most important part of it. How safe is that pipeline and other pipeline Enbridge has that was in news recently? Q: There seems to be a lot of attention being given to the proposed radioactive waste depository in Canada.. Has been in works for years.. How do you feel about it possibly being built?? Q: there is an effort afoot to put ballot initiative to voters to ban horizontal fracking.. How do you see horizontal | fracking? do you see any downside to allowing it? Q: How does Michigan compare to other states in its effort to keep waters ways safe? Q: Flint water woes been in news.. Sounds like effort tioget it hooked back up to Detroit is in future. Is that best course of action? what, if anything, should be done for folks in Flint? Are you concerned bout lead in Michigan's water-- aside

xxxEND_PAGE:deq24_b143_0372_0374_2 Hey, Carol. Sounds great! 1 look for q's as you've gat them ... if you need to discuss, my schedule is fairly good today, give me 2 call. Here's a file shot of Dan. b

Rosemarie Rosemarie OLzewski General Office Assistant - Executive Division Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Constitution Hall, 525 W. Allegan St. 6!" Floor South Tower, Pillar P6 Telephone: 517-284-6700 Fax: 517-241-7401 xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b236_3505_3505_1

Here you go! Heather Feuerstein Management Assistant to Maggie Pallone, Deputy Director and Brad Wurfel, Communications Director Department of Environmental Quality 517.284.6715 xxxEND_PAGE:deq14_b0511_1808_1808_1

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This is ihe statement that the Virginia Tech researcher is looking for. We can, | believe, decline his FOIA because he’s asking quite specifically for documents regarding sernething I never said, based on his recollection of something a reporter from the Flint Journal read to hirn over the phorie. ido not see where | have the actual testing that Community Health briefed us on. H's a sloppy request. We can deny it, or we can just give him this. Took me % of an hour to produce it, by the way. You call it. Thanks. b

Called. She's out. Left message. We will conmect tornorrow.