“PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI — Kent County will pay for drinking water testing at 47 properties south and west of the North Kent Landfill after toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances called PFAS or PFCs were confirmed in landfill monitoring wells.
Test results from one monitoring well found PFOS and PFOA at 237 parts-per-trillion (ppt) combined, about three times Michigan’s new groundwater limit of 70-ppt for the chemicals. The total of 21 PFAS chemicals hit 405-ppt in another well.
The county Department of Public Works has set aside $300,000 to pay for bottled water, well testing and potentially whole-house water filtration for properties south and west of the landfill in an area ringed by other PFAS testing zones…
Kent County asked the DEQ to test landfill wells for PFAS on Nov. 8, a week after MLive notified the county that court documents and township meeting minutes indicated Wolverine dumped sludge at the landfill after being kicked out of the Northeat Gravel pit…
Plainfield Township is negotiating with Wolverine to recoup the cost of installing PFAS filtration at its treatment plant and extending water mains to areas with contaminated wells. The township plans to borrow $25 million to cover those costs.”
Read the full article by Garrett Ellison