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Lake Road spring to be closed due to coliform

IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The recent detection of the presence of coliform bacteria in the water at the Lake Road spring, near Powers Road at Little Girl's Point, will likely lead to the spring's closure.

Lynne Madison, director of the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department's Environmental Health Division, said the spring was tested July 29 after the department received a complaint of an illness.

Madison said during the investigation of how the person got sick, it was discovered he or she drank water from the spring.

"They indicated that their water source was the spring, that they had consume...