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VOCs ruin water, mushroom farm, grower says

CADILLAC, MI, November 26, 2008 (Water Tech) — A mushroom farmer has joined a lawsuit brought by residents here who allege that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the county landfill are polluting their drinking water, a November 25 Cadillac News story said.

Mushroom grower Donald Alger has found that samples from trees on his land show that the trees are contaminated with four types of VOCs: benzene, toluene, styrene and tetrachloroethylene, according to the article. All four of the compounds are regulated as primary drinking water contaminants.

Alger’s property is located about 1 mile northwest of the Wexford County Landfill. He purchased land in Cedar Creek Township to house his shiitake mushroom operation and has owned property in the township since the 1950s, the story said.

Alger said in the article he now can’t grow the mushrooms because the trees normally serve as living hosts for the fungal organisms. He has joined a civil lawsuit against the county. Plaintiffs in the suit are mostly residents who say the landfill contaminated their drinking water.