Testing done by the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy found elevated levels of PFAS compounds in fish sampled near the Grand River Indian Mounds.
These results are part of findings collected at a new area of interest near Chicago Drive and Lee Street in Wyoming, encouraging state experts to expand testing into areas surrounding the Indian Mounds.
The mounds, also known as the Norton Mounds, are one of the best-preserved Hopewell Indian cultural burial sites in the country. The Hopewells are considered ancestors to modern Michigan tribes the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Odawa. Together, they form the Anishinabek, or the Council of Three Fires.
Other nearby bodies of water under the all-species Do Not Eat fish advisory include the pond at Hopewell Indian Mounds, Spelman Lake at the Wyoming Clean Water Plant, and Luvis and Porter Lakes in Grandville.
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