ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — The man who ran the Wolverine Worldwide tannery during the years it was dumping waste in Belmont said the company believed it was doing the right thing at the time.
But, he questions why Wolverine didn’t go public in 1999 when it learned in a letter from 3M that the Scotchgard in the sludge it was dumping was potentially hazardous.
“There is a responsibility there to do something I would think,” said Bob Winegar, of Rockford, who ran the tannery from 1962 to 1969. “I can’t tell you what I would have done, but being president of the company, you had the responsibility of doing something.”
That includes, he said, notifying the public.
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