From the T.C. Record-Eagle:
PETOSKEY — A local tribe could become involved in plans to treat large-scale pollution at Bay Harbor Resort on Lake Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay.
CMS Energy is responsible for treating contaminated groundwater at Bay Harbor Resort and may turn to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians for help.
CMS currently trucks wastewater to Grand Traverse County’s septage treatment plant in Traverse City, but wants to treat the pollution closer to the contamination site in Emmet County.
Tribal officials aren’t specifying what role they could play.
“This is our bay as well as it is the community’s. I want to be proactive about this. I see possibilities and responsibility,” said Ken Harrington, tribal chairman.
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