PULLMAN, Mich. — Dozens of residents at an Allegan County apartment complex are under a health advisory on Thursday and are being told not to drink the water.
The water in Angela Cambio’s apartment may not look out of the ordinary, but she knew all along something didn’t seem right Cambio said, “To me when it’s running, it smells like rotten eggs.” She also noticed a white chalky color when the water was boiled.
Cambio said, “We boiled the water to make tea and this is what the outcome.” Cambio and dozens of other residents in the Mystic View apartment complex were recently notified the water had high levels Cadmium, a toxic heavy metal.
“I don’t know how bad that stuff is.” The apartment complex owner’s are giving residents bottled water to use.
Wesley Keigley said, “Using bottled water, jugged water for everything.” Many, like Keigley and Cambio, are preparing to move out, but some rely on state assistance and many have already moved out.
Cambio said, “You got 24 families leaving.
Keigley said, “I blame the people that own the whole apartment complex.
How long have they known about this?
How long have they sit on their own hands and done nothing about it?
Because we’re smaller?