Charles Gelman obituary

[Roger Rayle]

Charles Gelman obituary in today's Mlive:

http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/annarbor/obituary.aspx?n=charles-gelman&pid=188743198

Chuck may be gone but his company products live on under the Pall Life Sciences name. 

His generosity was reflected in the various causes he favored. 

And his company's dioxane contamination legacy lives on under the Gelman Sciences Inc name after the parent company Danaher relegated all cleanup-related issues to it.

 The March 2011 modification of the Consent Judgment included a financial assurance mechanism (FAM) which "every 5 years the FAM, in this case the Letter of Credit, needs to be updated to cover the next 30 year period, after the State reviews and agrees on the amount needed to cover the next 30 year period". As of 2016, the Letter of Credit amount was ~$28M to carry on the cleanup for another 28 years as part of the FAM but was due for reevaluation. Without reevaluation/extension, the full future cost to resolve Gelman Sciences/Pall/Danaher's dioxane contamination legacy could be left to the public within 3 decades.

--Roger Rayle--

chair, SRSW