Homeowners/Citizens Environmental Resources

This Web site is dedicated to providing you with valuable information and resources to learn more about how you can protect Michigan's valuable resources and improve your home environment as well.  Click on the following areas of interest to see how you can protect and enhance the environment for all of Michigan's Citizens.

 

DEQ GENERAL INFORMATION 

• Contact the DEQ 
• Co-op America 
• DEQ Calendar 
• DEQ Programs by Division 
• DEQ Environmental Publications 
• ESSD Bulletin 
• Inside the DEQ 
• Permits 

Other Links: 

• Concerned Citizens Environmental Resources 
• EPA: Window to My Environment 
• Health & the Environment 

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AIR 

• American Lung Association Health House 
• Chemicals in the Air 
• Daily Air Quality Index 
• Dust and Fallout 
• Home Health & Safety - Consumer Brochures 
• Indoor Air Quality:  asthma, molds, radon, air information 
• Mold: Indoor Air Quality 
• Open Burning Information 
• Ozone Action 
• Radon - Indoor 

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LAND 

• Citizen Guide: Due Care Requirements (doc) 
• Citizen Guide: Baseline Environmental Assessment -- BEA (doc) 
• Citizen Guide:  What You Need to Know if Own or Purchasing Contaminated Property in Michigan (doc) 

Online Databases Links: 

• Leaking Underground Storage Tank Site List 
• General Sites of Contamination - Part 201 
• Superfund Sites & Program Information 
• Underground Storage Tank Facilities List 
• Emerald Ash Borer 
• EPA GreenScapes for Homeowners 
• Geology in Michigan 
• Home Heating Oil Tanks 
• Hydrogen Sulfide (Gas & Oil Wells Odors): Q & A 
• Lead Hazards in the Household 
• Michigan State University Cooperative Extensions 
• Oil & Gas Wells 

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ENERGY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION (P2) 

• Buying Gas & Car Maintenance Tips   
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S Department of Energy 
• EnergyStar for Energy Conservation Information 
• Green Washing 
• Healthy Home 
• Healthy Homes - HUD 
• Non-toxic Home care - home made formulas 
• Renewable Energy Association 
• Tire Tips Fact Sheet (doc) 

Mercury: 

• Mercury Containing Products 
• Mercury Pollution Prevention 

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WASTE 

• Earth 911: Recycling & Composting 
• Household Hazardous Waste Collection 
• Keep America Beautiful 
• MDEQ Recycling 
• Mercury Awareness for Michigan Citizens (doc) 
• Mercury P2: Information on Thermometers, Thermostats, Spills and More 
• Methamphetamine 
• Registered Scrap Tires Haulers and Scrap Tire Collection Sites 

Septic Tank Systems: 

• Septic System Waste, Licensed Septage Haulers List 
• What to Do if you Septic System Fails (doc) 
• The Point is Needles Hurt - Proper Disposal of Used Needles 

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WATER 

• Directory of Registered Well Drillers 
• EPA Adopt Your Watershed 
• Fish Advisory (doc) 
• Great Lakes 
• Great Lakes Shorelands Management 
• Floodplain Management 
• Inland Lakes and Streams 
• Mosquito Control Projects and West Nile Virus 
• National Flood Insurance Program 

Naturally Occurring Phenomenon Brochures: 

• Algae 
• Bacteria 
• Bryozoan 
• Foam 
• Pollen 
• Whitings 
• Preventing Groundwater Contamination (doc) 
• Public Beach Advisories 

Septic Tank Systems: 

• Licensed Septage Haulers 
• Maintaining your Septic System Special Considerations For Shoreline Property (doc) 
• Septic Tanks: How a House Works, What Happens After the Flush (doc) 
• Scanned Water Well Records 
• Sewage Discharges - Release Reports 
• Surf Your Watershed 
• Swimmers Itch (doc) 

Well Water Brochures: 

• Arsenic in Well Water 
• Coliform Bacteria and Well Water Sampling 
• How to Locate Abandoned Wells 
• Nitrate in Drinking Water 
• Plugging Abandoned Wells 
• Protecting Your Private Well Supply in an Emergency 
• Your Water Well and Pump System 
• Wetland Protection 

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