I wanted to chime in on this conversation regarding the well and septic inspections in Ottawa County. My business has operated in Ottawa County for 59 years. I have been able to talk with numerous ...

OTTAWA COUNTY -- County officials say by next spring they will have a plan to reduce wait times for well and septic system inspection results from its current two to three weeks to less than 10 days.

Five or six days a week Ronnie Tamez rises early in the morning to monitor and fix something beneath the ground that many people in Clark County would prefer to not think about. “You don’t think about ...

ROCKFORD — Scott Scull knows water — clean, not so clean and downright dirty. So do his counterpart Jackie Hatfield and Todd Marshall, their supervisor in the Winnebago County Health Department’s ...

OTTAWA COUNTY — Ottawa County commissioners plan to form a work group to evaluate time-of-sale well and septic inspections and whether they should be, at least in part, privatized. The idea was ...

Ottawa County officials and local real-estate agents are hoping that recent action by the county to add two environmental health technicians will help speed up septic and well inspections needed to ...

(This brief has been edited to reflect that the Central Michigan District Health Department is not holding the meeting and that no vote is scheduled – Ed. The Isabella County E. coli ad hoc committee ...