CADILLAC — Cadillac’s Local Development Finance Authority is releasing quarterly water sampling results for the first time in more than five years as some are accusing the board of not doing enough to keep people safe.

The LDFA is responsible for cleanup of groundwater in the city’s industrial park area.

After years of not testing for certain carcinogens in extraction and monitoring wells in the LDFA area, the board is getting the results of their first round of sampling.

Cadillac utilities director Jeffrey Dietlin said they tested dozens of extraction and monitoring wells for a number of carcinogens.

“We had some complications in sampling since 2000 and we’ve been working to get back to our quarterly sampling,” said Dietlin.

Dietlin said this is only half of the results from this qua

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