Parchment Gets All-Clear For Clean City Water

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The water in the city of Parchment and Cooper Township is again safe to drink. The state found extremely high levels of the suspected carcinogen PFAS in the water system last month at over 14-hundred parts per trillion, and new tests find that level is less than 10 parts per trillion now. City of Kalamazoo utilities director Jim Baker says they also found some other levels on the high side, including lead, which they have addressed.

“We are now seeing lead and copper results along with all results well within the Safe Drinking Water Act standard,” remarked Baker on Monday. On hand for the announcement was Governor Snyder.

“We should be proud of the work that’s gotten done here, but there’s a lot more work across Michigan and even more across our country that needs to happen,” said Snyder.

Those who are on private wells are being given kitchen sink filters this week in Cooper Township.