Healthy Huron Hunt Team
Lean Chadwick is the Great Lakes Regional Director of Philanthropy & Partnerships Wolfpack Coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation. NWF sends out updated news about the environment and community we live in. In a recent “Wolfpack” email sent out it has been discovered that Tribar Manufacturing Company dumped over 10,000 gallons of Hexavalent chromium solution into the Huron River, MI
News update from Michigan officials after a chemical spill from Wixom sewage plant into the Huron River.
A recent release from the Detroit Free Press states,
“State officials are urging the public to avoid all contact with Huron River water in a stretch of the river in Oakland and Livingston counties, after learning of a company’s release of potentially harmful hexavalent chromium into the Wixom sewer treatment system that outflows into the river.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy and Health and Human Services recommended Tuesday afternoon that until further notice, people and pets avoid contact with Huron River water in an area from North Wixom Road in Oakland County and Kensington Road in Livingston County. In Oakland County, this includes Norton Creek downstream of the Wixom Wastewater Treatment Plant and Hubbell Pond, also known as Mill Pond. The potentially affected area also includes Kent Lake in Oakland and Livingston counties.”