GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In a Kent County courtroom on Friday, a hearing over Wolverine Worldwide PFAS contamination drew mostly lawyers in suits.
But among them sat a couple,Tom and Terry Hula, who are stuck in the middle of the dispute, wishing this would all end.
The argument before Kent County Circuit Judge George Quist was over the Hula's home and property, located next to Wolverine’s old PFAS-filled House Street dump in Plainfield Township.
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"We've always referred to it as the Norman Rockwell piece of property," Terry Hula said outside the courtroom. "You just don't find a piece of property like that. We had Christmas trees growing on our property."
But they said they know they can't sell it.
In court, they listened as their attorney, Aaron Phelps, argue to fast-track their case against Wolverine and 3M.
"What happened is Miss Hula who's here in the courtroom, she called me three weeks ago," Phelps said. "She's crying. She's upset and what am I supposed to do?"
She was crying because months ago, herPFAS-tainted well failed, forcing her family to rely on a 1,550-gallon tank with water trucked in and paid for by Wolverine.
"I'm kind of at that breaking point where I don't know how much longer I can do it," Terry Hula said.
The Hula family is among more than 200 homeownersall seperately suing Wolverine and 3Mover Wolverine's dumping decades ago of PFAS-tainted material in Plainfield and Algoma townships. The likely carcinogen produced by 3M has contaminated their wells.
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