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MI company uses dogs to sniff out water pollution

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Courtesy Environmental Canine Services

Environmental Canine Services is a six-year-old Michigan company that uses dogs to find pollution in water.

It’s said that no location in Michigan is more than a few miles from a lake, pond, river or stream. That makes the safe and responsible disposal of waste water of primary concern to all of us. One Michigan-based company has introduced a new way to detect and source illicit discharges in storm and drain systems.

Karen and Scott Reynolds founded Environmental Canine Services in 2009 using dogs to detect waste water problems.

Dr. Kirk Heinze spoke with Karen Reynolds recently on MSU Today’s Greening of the Great Lakes, an occasional feature on Current State.

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