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Wolverine: Filters cleaning most PFAS from Michigan drinking water

Leather scraps found along the Rogue River in Rockford on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. The scraps are from a former Wolverine World Wide tannery that was demolished in 2010. They are located along the White Pine Trail near the Wolverine shoe store. (Garret Ellison | MLive.com)

“PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Wolverine Worldwide on Friday said the whole-house filters it has paid to install around former dump sites are cleaning most of the PFAS from drinking water…

‘They come every week to check the water, and I think the last two tests, three tests, have shown that they’re clearing everything, less than 1 part per trillion,’ Sandy Wynn-Stelt told Target 8.

Pretty impressive, she said, considering her drinking well tested at 38,000 parts per trillion — 542 times the state’s drinking water limit of 70 parts per trillion…

Wolverine said it has paid to install whole house filters to residents in the House Street, Jewell, and Wolven Study Areas with any confirmed PFAS contamination. So far, it has installed 460…

On Friday, Wolverine said tests of more than 280 of those filters found they’re working.

In homes with 1,000 or more parts per trillion, they are filtering them down to less than 3 parts per trillion, it reported on its blog.”

Read the full article by Ken Kolker.

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