- Dates
- 2016-04-27 – 2016-04-28
- Kind
- Public information
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Rural Health Center
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- public-healthenvironmentwater
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On April 27–28, 2016, the Beaver Island Rural Health Center announced that it had state information about protecting private wells and supplies for submitting water samples to a state laboratory. The center subsequently reported Health Department of Northwest Michigan fees of $18 for bacteriological testing and $20 for partial chemistry testing.
Evidence limits
This record documents a local public-information and service-access notice, not a finding that Beaver Island wells were contaminated or unsafe. The archived forum thread does not include the underlying state handouts or any record of how many residents tested their wells.
Sources
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Sources
- The Beaver Island Rural Health Center announced that it had state information sheets, water-sampling bottles, and guidance for testing private wells for chemical and biological contaminants. In a follow-up it gave Health Department of Northwest Michigan fees of $18 for bacteriological testing and $20 for partial chemistry testing. The forum preserves the center’s public notice but not the underlying state documents or evidence of participation.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010103
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Rural Health Center offers private-well safety and testing guidance, 2016”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rural-health-center-well-water-testing-guidance-2016/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Well water safety,” April 27–28, 2016..
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