“People who live in Oscoda are concerned about foam containing toxic chemicals known as per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – that keeps appearing on Van Etten Lake…
Wurtsmith Air Force Base is the source of ongoing contamination there. Private wells and bodies of water in the area have tested high for PFAS…
Around Labor Day, the District Health Department No. 2, the local health department that serves Oscoda, warned residents not to ingest any of the foam showing up on the lake.
Kory Groetsch is the Environmental Public Health Director with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. He says the state is aware of the foam and it wanted to make sure residents are too…
Groetsch says right now, there is no concrete cleanup plan for the foam along the lake’s shoreline…
Aaron Weed is the Oscoda Township Supervisor. He says he’s got a lot of questions for the state but few answers…
Weed says he thinks Oscoda is being overlooked by the state because other PFAS contamination sites have been getting more press.”
Read the full article by Bryce Huffman.