CMS Land files a permit with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) for a proposed water treatment facility
BAY HARBOR -- It's one step closer to allowing CMS Land Company to change the way it treats polluted water from Bay Harbor in Emmet County.
CMS has applied for a permit to treat and release water collected at the Bay Harbor development.
It's a part of the Little Traverse Bay Environmental Project.
The water treatment facility proposed in the application is located just east of Camp Daggett Road on the North slide of U.S. 31.
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit application calls for using technology to remove 90 percent of the mercury and other contaminants in the collected water and then releasing the water into Lake Michigan.
The application was submitted to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Currently CMS collects and ships up to 310,000 gallons of water a day to disposal sites in Johannesburg and Traverse City.
Other water treatment options under review include sending the water to the City of Petoskey's water treatment system and a local deep injection well.
CMS Land submitted a separate NPDES application for the water collected at East Park on November 19 and an application for a local deep injection well on October 30 to the MDEQ.
CMS Land has spent about $90 million over the past five years on the Little Traverse Bay Environmental Project.
For more information about the work being done at the Little Traverse Bay Environmental Project click on THIS LINK.
