[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Michigan "warns of Wurtsmith [Air Force Base] fish"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State warns of Wurtsmith fish

Associated Press
May 3, 2012

OSCODA TOWNSHIP, Mich.  - The Michigan Department of Community Health  
warns people not to eat fish from a marsh apparently contaminated by  
chemicals from the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in the  
northeastern Lower Peninsula.

The department said it issued the warning Wednesday based on  
pumpkinseed and bluegill fish samples taken in 2011 from Clark’s  
Marsh. It’s in Iosco County’s Oscoda Township, just south of the base  
and about 65 miles north-northeast of Bay City.

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