Michigan · PFAS in Water: What to Check
PFAS in Water: What to Check in Michigan
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01 · Your filing deadline
What is the deadline in Michigan?
Michigan has a 3-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims, running from accrual rather than discovery (MCL 600.5827). A lawyer can confirm yours.
Deadlines vary; a lawyer can confirm yours. An older diagnosis or a past filing window does not, by itself, establish whether you have a claim.
02 · Where cases are heard
Where would my case be heard?
Federal PFAS claims are centralized in MDL 2873 (In re: AFFF Products Liability Litigation) in the District of South Carolina (Charleston) before Judge Richard M. Gergel. Michigan plaintiffs and water utilities file directly into MDL 2873. Michigan is one of the most PFAS-contaminated states in the nation, with the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) identifying over 11,000 sites of potential PFAS concern and 170+ sites with documented environmental contamination.
Michigan has some of the strictest PFAS MCLs in the nation (enacted 2020, pre-dating EPA's 2024 federal standards).
Michigan's statute of limitations for personal injury is 3 years under MCL § 600.5805(2). Under MCL § 600.5827, a claim accrues when the wrong is done regardless of when damage results, unless another section provides otherwise; the statute itself contains no discovery rule for latent PFAS diseases. Michigan's aggressive PFAS enforcement posture and extensive contamination site mapping make it one of the highest-activity PFAS litigation states.
Michigan's major PFAS contamination sites include: Wurtsmith AFB (Oscoda, Iosco County — one of the largest AFFF plumes in the U.S., contaminating Van Etten Lake and Oscoda Township drinking water), Kalamazoo area (Parchment municipal water PFAS contamination from former paper mills in 2018 — a landmark case prompting Michigan's accelerated PFAS action), Grayling Army Airfield, Selfridge Air National Guard Base (Macomb County), K.I. Sawyer AFB (Marquette County, Upper Peninsula), Battle Creek's Fort Custer Training Center, and industrial 3M manufacturing legacy contamination in Western Michigan.
How this works nationally
For the overall process and updates, read the PFAS in Water: What to Check overview. This page covers the local information available for Michigan.
What happens when I check?
You answer a few short questions about what happened. If you send them, your answers are kept on file. If a participating law firm takes these cases, it may contact you. People's Justice is not a law firm.
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