PARCHMENT (WKZO AM/FM) –Work will continue this week installing the infrastructure to permanently connect the Parchment water system with the water wells used by the system in Kalamazoo and much of the rest of the county.
Bottled water distribution continues at Parchment High School and they are also accepting your empty bottles for recycling.
As of early Sunday, they had handed out over 1250 case of water for the hot weekend. They will be open from 10am to 4pm on Sunday.
We are assuming they will resume the noon to 8pm schedule for weekdays on Monday, but no specific announcement has been made.
Parchment isn’t the only area in the state with a PFAs problem, and we can expect to see more and more of them pop up as more locations are tested for the first time.
(OAKLAND COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has just issued an emergency ‘Do Not the Eat’ fish advisory for all fish between the Huron River at Milford to the Huron River at Base Line and Portage Lakes due to PFOS, due to high levels of PFOS found in the fish filets.
That includes Hubbell Pond, Kent Lake, Strawberry and Zukey Lake, Gallagher Lake, Loon Lake, Whitewood Lakes, Base Line and Portage lakes. The advisory replaces previous mercury and PCB guidelines that recommended consumption limits for fish from the Huron River.
That affects Oakland, Livingston and Washtenaw Counties, including some of the highest population concentrations in the state.
Because the Crown Vantage Plant and the firm’s 82 acre unlined landfill sit on either side of the Kalamazoo River in Parchment, there is a very good chance that PFAS may be leaching into the Kalamazoo River as well.
The fish downstream may be something State Health officials may want to look into, if they haven’t already.
Test results on the Crown Vantage Sites could start coming back from the labs this week.
