The Nestle corporation is asking the state to approve plans to drill miles of pipe to supply a facility in Stanwood that bottles water under the Ice Mountain brand.
The plan involves directional drilling of more than three miles of 5-inch wide stainless steel pipe.
Pipes for the well, which will be sited at Osceola County’s Spring Hill Bible Camp, will extend under private land and will cross several wetlands and streams including the Twin Creek, according to Department of Environmental Quality environmental engineer Susan Conradson.
The project would mark the first time a water bottling company practiced directional drilling under wetlands in Northern Michigan.
Conradson said the DEQ will consider whether the plan involves “unacceptable disruption, loss of habitat or loss of the wetland itself.”
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This line is going to have be bored like a sewer line or water line, below the frost line; even though the line may be stainless steel, it's still subject to corrosion and will need monitoring for leakage or water will be lost into the soil. The boring could also disrupt groundwater flows — especially if it's running under a stream bed.
Craziness, and likely being done to avoid trucking water by tanker truck.
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