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Dow Midland Michigan Brine Complex (Dow's Founding Site)

The birthplace of Dow Chemical (1897) and the US chlor-alkali industry. Herbert Dow pioneered electrolytic brine processing here beginning with his first brine well in 1892. The Midland brine field, containing naturally occurring bromine alongside sodium chloride, remains the foundation of Dow's Michigan operations for bromine, magnesia, calcium chloride, and chlor-alkali. EGLE (Michigan environment agency) has been working with Dow to plug ~150 historic brine wells from early operations.