We have falsely assumed our water has been safe, tragically we were wrong.
We have made a false assumption in regards to water safety, many of us have assumed the laws were designed to protect the people and not the polluters. We have allowed the names of the agencies to somehow imply a meaning that they actually had the public's interest in mind and were taking the measures necessary to keep us safe.
Environmental "Protection" Agency, Department of "Natural" Resources, Department of Environmental "Quality", "Health" Department, those are all agencies we the people put our trust in to keep us safe. I am here to show you how they have all failed us and what we can do united as a community to help bring safe drinking water to our neighborhoods for generations to come.
All photography provided by Jared Chambers
Here is a walk through on how to use this site and some of the research you can find here
The Video below was filmed at the Indian Mill Creek wading from the Folkertsma Superfund site which has a trench dug through the site allowing hazardous waste to enter the Indian Mill Creek which flows into the Grand River. The scattered toxic waste barrels extend all the way to behind West Catholic High School’s property bordering the Indian MIll Creek. The Manufacturing facility visible in the video is listed as a Primary Responsible Party for the Superfund site. The DEQ/EGLE confirmed PFOS present at this site as well in June of 2019. While in the video I state pfos is not the issue, it is indeed part of the issue. My focus at the time of filming was on the totality of the contaminants being allowed to enter the creek, and in turn the Grand River. Which are listed in the Superfund site profile called Folkertsma which you can research using the Superfund links in the research resources on the header of this page.
I wanted to find out where Grand Rapids Hazardous Waste is going today, so I followed a Tanker truck from a known hazardous waste generator and the video below is what I discovered. I brought the local news to this site and showed them what was occurring, when local news refused to inform the public of what you are about to see in the video, I performed further research and learned the site is known as the H. Brown Superfund site, local officials, the State of Michigan, and the EPA along with the same engineers responsible for Plainfield Municipal Water Contamination were all involved in this site and it is through their documentation that I learned Grand Rapids drew it’s municipal water 5,000’ downstream from where this waste is entering the river. You can view this by looking at the National Priorities List Narrative for the H. Brown Co (Superfund). This video shows how local, county, State, and Federal agencies have been addressing contamination issues at one of the most polluted sites in Grand Rapids.
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