BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — About 50 people who live within a mile of the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base have received letters from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, saying the state agency wants to test their drinking water.
"Right now, we're looking at the private drinking water wells that are around here,” Kevin Green, the environmental health manager for the Calhoun County Health Department, said. “There is municipal water in that general area, but we're looking at when that came in people were not required to hook up, so there's still some homes that have private drinking water wells, and those are the ones that we're concentrating on because we don't know if it's out there or not."