PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The number of dump sites the state is checking in the Wolverine Worldwide PFAS contamination investigation has grown to 75, state officials told Target 8 Monday.
That’s 18 more sites than when Target checked with the state about two weeks ago. State Department of Environmental Quality officials said that of the sites it has investigated so far, about 30 percent were confirmed tied to the Rockford-based shoe manufacturer.
Also Monday, work resumed on cleanup of one of the confirmed sites in a ravine off House Street NE at Imperial Pine Street following a two-week delay. Crews have uncovered layers of leather several feet deep.
Crews had halted work late last month after the Central Sanitary Landfill near Pierson, which is 18 miles away, stopped taking the piles of leather and other waste.
Now, crews are trucking it 153 miles away to Wayne Disposal in Belleville, the state’s only commercial hazardous waste landfill. They will dump it into containment cells lined with clay and two layers of thick plastic.
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