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.”