by Fix MI State | Nov 3, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater, Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Roads & Bridges
In multiple stories over the past year, Bridge Magazine has focused on shameful and alarming examples of Michigan’s aging, failing and overwhelmed infrastructure. Sadly, as one Bridge headline so accurately noted, our Legislature’s answer has been “ignore everything.”...
by Fix MI State | Oct 30, 2017 | Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
Michigan Department of Transportation officials said drainage improvements made along a flood-prone stretch of U.S. 31 in recent years were overpowered last week when Tannery Creek also overran with water. The flooding that occurred on Tuesday was a familiar...
by Fix MI State | Oct 30, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
FLINT, MI — Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June showed the city’s 90th percentile for lead...
by Fix MI State | Oct 26, 2017 | Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
The U.S. economy is the largest in the world, topping a GDP of $18.6 trillion in 2016. An economic powerhouse as massive and diversified as the United States depends on a network of highways, bridges, airports, and dams to thrive. And while the economy has grown every...
by Fix MI State | Oct 25, 2017 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Stormwater & Wastewater
More than a quarter of a million people in Michigan’s richest county have to boil their drinking water this week. If you haven’t heard, that’s because a four-foot wide water transmission line apparently broke in Farmington Hills Monday night. This has gotten a lot of...
by Fix MI State | Oct 24, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater, Roads & Bridges
SAGINAW, MI — Heavy rains in Mid-Michigan since Sunday have sparked flood warnings and forecasts of minor river flooding. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning Tuesday morning, Oct. 24, for Isabella, Clare and parts of Arenac counties. Roscommon,...
