[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Wolverine World Wide to pay $69.5M for new water mains" in Belmont, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wolverine World Wide to pay $69.5M for new water mains


By Garret Ellison
MLive.com
December 10, 2019

BELMONT, MI - Wolverine World Wide has agreed to pay $69.5 million toward new municipal water mains and filtration in northern Kent County where the groundwater is contaminated by toxic fluorochemicals that were in the company’s leather manufacturing waste.

The agreement tentatively settles a lawsuit between the global footwear company and state and local governments, which have spent the past two years debating a permanent clean water solution for around 1,500 homes with toxic PFAS chemicals in their drinking water.

It paves the way for construction to begin in 2020 on new pipes to bring safe water to neighborhoods like House Street, Chandler Drive and Wellington Ridge, where private wells are contaminated by extremely high PFAS levels in the groundwater.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/12/wolverine-world-wide-to-pay-695m-for-new-water-mains.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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