The City of Beloit shuts down one of its water wells after detecting elevated levels of radium.
Director of Water Resources Bill Frisbee says residents never faced any health risk.
Frisbee says the Department of Natural Resources doesn’t require them to shut down the well, but they decided to do so to be proactive and ease the community’s concern.
He says the radium is naturally occurring in the ground based on where the 1,000-foot deep well was located, and they’re working with the DNR on a plan to mitigate it.
Their capacity to function without the well means they might not finish mitigating it until 2021.