White Lake Residents Express Concerns About Water Contamination
During a meeting with Huron Valley Schools, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Oakland County Health, residents voiced concerns about water contamination caused by the school district.
For the past few months, the Huron Valley School District has been providing bottled water to residents in the neighborhoods southeast of the Lakeland High School campus whose wells have been contaminated by the district's waste water treatment facility off Bogie Lake Road. The water has not been enough though, and many residents voiced their concerns Wednesday night at a meeting with school officials and those involved in the remediation process to fix the contamination. Chuck Kleismit is one of the residents whose drinking water has been affected by a plume of contamination leaked from the waste water facility that's now being shut down. At the meeting, Kleismit said he's angry with the district and frustrated by the lack of transparency…
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