by Fix MI State | Jan 17, 2020 | Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
According to city officials, water is still safe for consumption despite several recent water main breaks. In a citywide alert, officials announced Jan. 16 that three water main breaks had occured in the area of Eight Mile and Lahser roads. Larry Sirls, the manager of...
by Fix MI State | Jan 14, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The Oakland County Board of Commissioners are calling on state legislators to amend a 69-year-old law that determines how much money governments receive for road repairs. Public Act 51 of 1951 is the state’s funding mechanism that determines how revenue dollars...
by Fix MI State | Jan 14, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The Michigan Department of Transportation intends to close the crumbling Mt. Elliott Street bridge by the end of January as part of a plan to replace four aging bridges over I-94 and I-75 in Detroit this year. The 65-year-old Mt. Elliott Street bridge, part of which...
by Fix MI State | Jan 3, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
A broken force main pipe on Bunton Road caused about 50 gallons of sewage to overflow in Augusta Township on New Year’s Eve, the line’s owner announced Thursday. F&V Operations and Resource Management said on Jan. 2 that the old pipe had reached the end of its...
by Fix MI State | Nov 18, 2019 | Roads & Bridges
Grosse Ile resident Mark Lane says his 16-year-old daughter was cut off, flipped off and yelled at in a road rage incident after Wayne County abruptly closed one of only two connections to the largest island in the Detroit River, lengthening commutes by an hour or...
