Oakland County Among Airports to Receive State Funding to Address PFAS

Oakland County amongst airports receives state funding to handle PFAS

(MDEGLE, January 16, 2026)

Waterford, MI – The Michigan Division of Setting, Nice Lakes, and Power as we speak introduced $9 million in grants to 19 municipal airports throughout the state to handle PFAS contamination associated to using PFAS-containing firefighting foam.

The grant funding will probably be used for a variety of actions, together with PFAS testing and monitoring, potential supply management and remediation methods for groundwater and stormwater, and cleansing of fireplace suppression tools and alternative hearth tools.

The next airports have been awarded funding:

• Battle Creek Govt Airport – $300,000
• Bishop Worldwide Airport – $300,000
• Capital Area Worldwide Airport – $300,000
• Cherry Capital Airport (Northwest Regional Airport Authority) – $1,000,000
• Chippewa County Worldwide Airport/Chippewa County Financial Growth Company – $475,000
• Delta County Airport – $476,697
• Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport – $370,000
• Ford Dickinson County Airport – $462,600
• Former Marquette County Airport – $1,000,000
• Gerald R Ford Worldwide Airport – $150,000
• Gogebic-Iron County Airport – $361,400
• Houghton County Memorial Airport – $1,000,000
• Kalamazoo Worldwide Airport/Battle Creek – $710,681
• Manistee County Blacker – $150,000
• Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport – $150,000
• MBS Worldwide Airport – $340,202
• Oakland County Worldwide Airport – $264,479
• Pellston Regional Airport – $1,000,000
• Willow Run Airport – $250,000

A complete of 21 functions have been acquired requesting $14.8 million towards the $9 million in allotted grant funding in response to the Michigan PFAS Response Group (MPART) request for proposals.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, generally often called PFAS, are a bunch of doubtless dangerous man-made chemical compounds utilized in hundreds of functions worldwide, together with firefighting foam, meals packaging, and plenty of different shopper and industrial functions. They don’t seem to be simply damaged down within the surroundings and are identified to build up within the tissues of dwelling organisms.

MPAR is a crew of seven authorities businesses, established beneath one Implementation guideline in 2017 guarantee coordination in implementing a response to PFAS contamination. MPART grew to become a sustainable physique beneath one Implementation decision in 2019. The purpose of MPART is to guard public well being by figuring out sources of PFAS, addressing PFAS contamination on the supply, and dealing with native well being departments to guard individuals in areas the place groundwater is affected by PFAS.

For extra details about PFAS and what the Michigan PFAS Motion Response Group (MPART) is doing to handle PFAS, go to www.michigan.gov/pfasresponse.

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