The GETS is JCI/TYCO’s Groundwater Extraction Treatment System, which is a $25 million piece of equipment that has been installed in order to clean all the PFAS out of the groundwater from TYCO’s operations in Marinette at their fire training center. Katie McGinty vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer for Johnson Controls says, “with working with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is that we’ve got a full quarter of a year now of 24-7 operation of this environmental cleanup equipment and the results are in and clear.”
McGinty says, “it will take time to remove the PFAS, but the good news is that this system also hydraulically contained the groundwater plume and that is part of the groundwater that has the PFAS.”
According to McGinty, the environment is responding very clearly to this massive treatment system. Every drop of water is at its cleanest and coming out without PFAS in it. McGinty also touches on the Town of Peshtigo with the 169 deep wells that are most likely affected by JCI/TYCO operations. McGinty says, “we want to deliver to our neighbors long-term, good, clean, drinking water, so they never have to worry about PFAS.” Currently, over half of the 169 residents with a contaminated well, in the Town of Peshtigo, would like a deep well. The results have also come in from the deep well testing. There is no PFAS. There is also no PFAS in the deep groundwater, the aquifer, where they are pulling that water from and any naturally occurring elements in the water, also testing is well below any standards.
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