[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water
Residents had for years been drinking water contaminated by dangerous PFAS chemicals – and the impact has been brutal


By Tom Perkins
The Guardian
January 10, 2020

In the years before 2017, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband had suspicions about the water they drew from a well on their House Street property in the Michigan town of Belmont. She attributed the bad taste to it being well water, but the “weird film” on their morning coffee was difficult to explain.

By June 2017, state officials alerted her that PFAS from a nearby, decades-old dump belonging to Wolverine World Wide, a shoe giant best known for the Hush Puppy brand, had contaminated their well.

Tests found shocking levels. The Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS advisory water limit is 70 parts per trillion (ppt). Health officials found levels in the well as high as 90,000 ppt.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/10/toxic-chemicals-michigan-wolverine-chemicals-pfas#img-1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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