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FENNVILLE (AP) -
Birds Eye Foods Inc. has announced a plan to remove iron from Fennville's city water supply and expand
the system's service area into two neighboring townships.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says a Birds Eye food-processing plant in the Allegan County community has contaminated some private wells in nearby Clyde and Manlius townships with iron, manganese and arsenic.
Affected property owners and others would get the water service.
Birds Eye has a state permit to dispose of production waste water by spraying it onto fields near the properties. The DEQ says that has led to the heavy metals seeping into the groundwater.
The company also said in a statement issued Wednesday it's planning to upgrade its waste water treatment system.
We'll have more on this story tonight on FOX 17 News at Ten.
July 1, 2009
The Erin Brockovich legal team is taking aim at two big companies in two contamination cases in West Michigan.
The team announced Monday it would file suit against Coca-Cola in a Paw Paw case of ground water contamination. Then Tuesday, a suit was announced against Birds Eye Foods in the Fennville case of contamination.
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Neither company has admitted to be at fault, though Birds Eye has been supplying about 50 families with bottled water. Birds Eye did not return calls from FOX 17 News.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says in the Fennville case, Birds Eye is to blame for contamination of ground water.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says a Birds Eye food-processing plant in the Allegan County community has contaminated some private wells in nearby Clyde and Manlius townships with iron, manganese and arsenic.
Affected property owners and others would get the water service.
Birds Eye has a state permit to dispose of production waste water by spraying it onto fields near the properties. The DEQ says that has led to the heavy metals seeping into the groundwater.
The company also said in a statement issued Wednesday it's planning to upgrade its waste water treatment system.
We'll have more on this story tonight on FOX 17 News at Ten.
July 1, 2009
The Erin Brockovich legal team is taking aim at two big companies in two contamination cases in West Michigan.
The team announced Monday it would file suit against Coca-Cola in a Paw Paw case of ground water contamination. Then Tuesday, a suit was announced against Birds Eye Foods in the Fennville case of contamination.
(Comments on the video player.)
Neither company has admitted to be at fault, though Birds Eye has been supplying about 50 families with bottled water. Birds Eye did not return calls from FOX 17 News.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says in the Fennville case, Birds Eye is to blame for contamination of ground water.
