Published: May 6, 2021 • Cooper Township supervisors, at the May 13 meeting at 6 p.m. in the township building, 59 Steltz Road, Danville, will act on an ordinance authorizing the.
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PARCHMENT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) A multi-million dollar settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed over high levels of PFAS contamination in drinking water in Parchment and Cooper Township.
The water crisis came to light in July of 2018. Tests at the time showed that PFAS levels in Parchment’s water system and some wells in Cooper Township were 20 times higher than what is considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. Residents were immediately given bottled water at distribution sites while work was done to transfer the city into Kalamazoo’s water system.
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Clearfield County Brush Fire 6:25 pm
Planes and a dozen fire companies from two counties battled a large brush fire in Clearfield County Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency dispatchers say crews were called to the area of Clearfield Street in Cooper Township when the flames started spreading out of control.
According to Morris Township Fire Company, who was called to assist Grassflat Fire Company, two air tankers, or planes, were called to drop water on the flames.
The planes were called in from the Pennsylvania DCNR Bureau of Forestry who also provided ground crews to help.
Fire companies that responded include: Grassflatt, Winburne, Morris Township, Karthus, Chester Hill, Osceola Mills, Philipsburg, Sandy Ridge, Snow Shoe and Milesburg.
Kalamazoo River restoration projects to use $27M in PCB settlements
Updated 2:35 PM;
Today 2:30 PM
The former Plainwell Paper Co. mill dam spillway along the Kalamazoo River in Plainwell, Mich. on Nov. 20, 2020. The structure would be removed under a draft list of proposed ecological restoration projects being developed with settlement funding from paper companies that contaminated the river with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.Garret Ellison | MLive
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KALAMAZOO, MI A suite of ecological restoration projects is being planned along the Kalamazoo River using settlement funding from companies responsible for contaminating an 80-mile stretch with polychlorinated biphenyls.
State and federal agencies are seeking public input on 14 proposed projects between Kalamazoo and Lake Michigan that would remove dams, improve riparian areas and rehabilitate wildlife habitat harmed by PCB pollution.