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Toxic tap water probe: 2 more cases filed against Wolverine
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Two more lawsuits have been filed against Wolverine Worldwide in connection to contaminated wells in the Belmont area. The additional lawsuits filed Thursday in Kent...
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Former tannery manager questions Wolverine’s timeline
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...
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Wolverine expands whole-house filtration program
ALGOMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Wolverine Worldwide announced Friday that the company is expanding its whole-house filtration program to two new areas. The company said in its blog that it will pay...
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Wolverine promised in 1960s to protect wells
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Recently uncovered documents show Wolverine Worldwide promised not to pollute Belmont water more than 50 years ago. The information from the 1960s was dug up by Varnum Law...
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Class-action suit: Wolverine dumped at GR landfill
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Wolverine Worldwide is facing its first federal class-action lawsuit in connection to the dumping of waste at the center of well contamination concerns north of Grand...
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Toxic tap water probe: Erin Brockovich coming to Kent Co.
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Famed legal clerk and environmental activist Erin Brockovich is coming to Kent County to meet with property owners impacted by the toxic tap water investigation...
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Toxic tap water: Lessons learned in West Virginia
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WOOD) — Earl Botkin lived down the Ohio River from the sprawling DuPont Co. Washington Works plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia for years, but never questioned his drinking water....
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Timeline: History of Wolverine Worldwide and PFAS
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) – A timeline of Wolverine Worldwide’s sludge dumping history and the resulting investigation into PFAS concerns: 1939: Wolverine starts dumping at the House Street NE...
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Toxic tap water investigation: The lives impacted
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — They live at the center of it all, their wells tapping directly into the groundwater flowing away from Wolverine Worldwide’s old House Street dump, where neighbors...
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Bar outside tainted water buffer zone adds filter
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — As the Belmont area deals with contamination in residential wells, one local restaurant and bar is taking the safety of its water into its own hands. The Vestal Inn...
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Cleaning PFAS-tainted water: ‘Easy to get to zero’
PARKERSBURG, W. Va. (WOOD) — Plainfield Township residents worried about trace levels of a likely carcinogen in their municipal water might want to look south, to the Ohio River Valley. In...
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Brinks seeks oversight hearing on toxic tap water
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A state lawmaker from Grand Rapids wants the Michigan House of Representatives Committee on Oversight to look in to the contamination of well water in northern Kent...
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Used car dealers posing as private sellers online
GALESBURG, Mich. (WOOD) — Like a lot of used car buyers, Dave Knoth was desperate for reliable wheels but worried about getting ripped off. “I’m just trying to get my family something that’s...
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4 years later, stranded charity shipment back in W. MI
WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — A shipping container filled with relief supplies that never arrived in Haiti is back in West Michigan, four years later. The 40-foot-long shipping container arrived in the Grand...
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Plainfield Twp. OKs purchase of PFAS filter
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Plainfield Township will buy a filtration system to strip any traces of PFAS, a likely carcinogen at the center of a toxic tap water crisis affecting residential...
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Ray McCann II: Wrongly convicted, beaten, exonerated
CONSTANTINE, Mich. (WOOD) — Raymond McCann II was locked up for 20 months for a lie he never told over a murder he had nothing to do with. But now, after a Target 8 investigation revealed the repeated...
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Neighbors foot the bill to find chemical in water
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — When residents in one Plainfield Township neighborhood were told their area wasn’t contaminated with a likely carcinogen linked to shoe manufacturing waste, they...
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State Legislature OKs $23M for PFAS response
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD/AP) — On what was likely the final day of session for the year for the state Legislature, the question of contaminated water was the focus of a supplemental appropriation. Both...
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Bill would set PFAS standard in Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Legislation proposed by a state representative from Grand Rapids would set Michigan’s standard for PFAS-related chemicals in drinking water far below the federal advisory...
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How state will spend money in PFAS response
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In one of the last votes for the Michigan Legislature before breaking for the year, lawmakers voted Wednesday to send resources to help with the response to...
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