Source: https://www.mlive.com/, June 1, 2022
By: Garret Ellison

The bucolic farmland along the Newaygo and Oceana county border seems far removed from the perils of industrial pollution.

Yet, that is exactly what the state is investigating this year at two properties where crops and livestock were farmed on land tainted by manufacturing waste once used as fertilizer.

The former Valley View Pork farms near Walkerville are at the center of a Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) investigation into PFAS groundwater and soil contamination after leather tannery sludge waste was spread on fields there starting in the mid-1990s. Read more.