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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is asking for the public’s help in testing lakes that may have been contaminated in the Rockford area.
State and local health officials have been working to determine the scope of contamination caused by dumped chemicals from Wolverine Worldwide. The chemical of concern, PFAS, is used in the shoe-making process and is believed to cause cancer when too much of it is consumed by humans.
Authorities are continuing to test water at homes near the contamination sites to determine what needs to be done to rectify the problem. On Friday, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials said there was no evidence that Wolverine Worldwide had broken any laws as regulations surrounding dumping may have come long after the area was contaminated.
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