by Fix MI State | Apr 7, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Construction for the final piece of Port Huron’s massive sewer-separation project is expected to begin sometime this month. The project comes with a total price tag approaching $2 million and more than two decades after the state first ordered the city to stop close...
by Fix MI State | Apr 7, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
About 30,000 gallons of raw sewage overflowed from a manhole on private property in Kalamazoo on Monday. Utility crews from Kalamazoo’s Department of Public Services responded to the spill, and removed the blockage causing the problem. The overflow was from a...
by Fix MI State | Apr 7, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
An excess of wastewater from the weekend rainfall caused an “unanticipated bypass” at the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority, officials said this week. The capacity of one of the Wastewater Treatment Plant’s steps was exceeded on Saturday, March 28, in the...
by Fix MI State | Mar 18, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
It could be tempting to flush nearly alternatives down the toilet, especially if toilet paper isn’t readily available. But during the Coronavirus outbreak, plumbers, and officials at the Kent County Water Resource Recovery Facility, are saying,...
by Fix MI State | Mar 18, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
We know little about how the novel coronavirus might survive and move within our drinking and wastewater systems. But in some regions such mechanisms could be a critical piece of the puzzle surrounding the disease transmission, To understand why, we need to look more...
by Fix MI State | Mar 16, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
City officials have reported a sewage spill at the University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum, a public nature area with walking trails along the Huron River. The city was notified of a manhole in the Arb with water leaking from it at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March...
