“BELMONT, Mich.– A private well at a home on Chandler Drive NE in Belmont shows lead levels at 73 parts per billion, well above the EPA’s limit of 15 parts per billion.
The home is near House Street, an old Wolverine Worldwide dumping site where other chemicals have been found contaminating drinking wells in the area.
Homeowner Luke Carney says he and his wife Jennifer paid for their well water to be tested after researching the history of contaminants in nearby water. The father of two says he’s at a loss for what to do next…
This isn’t the first time contaminants have been found in the Carney’s well water. Last fall, Carney says their water tested at 147.9 and 320 parts per trillion. The state of Michigan set a limit at 70 parts per trillion. He says Wolverine installed a whole-home filter to address that issue and now PFAS levels at his home are non-detectable.
Wolverine denied any connection to lead detection near the House Street dump site…
Wolverine adds that out of 38 homes they tested, the highest levels of lead they detected in the vicinity of House Street was [1,800 parts per trillion].
Steve Kelso with the Kent County Health Department says these results should be taken very seriously…
Kelso says the Health Department has offered the family at this residence the assistance of a sanitarian, but the Carneys say that help was never offered.”
Read the full article by Ahtra Elnashar.