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 | Feb 26, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Weeks after township officials ordered “no body contact” with Four Mile Creek, a body of water that feeds the Muskegon River and passes under Muskegon Community College, that advisory has been lifted. Recent testing of the waters came back within quality standards,...
by Fix MI State | Dec 9, 2019 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Some sewage pumps around Lake Mitchell are more than twice as old as they should be. The Lake Mitchell sewer system was built in the late 1970s. Some of the pumps that keep raw sewage moving in the right direction — away from the lake and into pipes that go to...
by Fix MI State | Sep 19, 2019 | Roads & Bridges
Neighbors said they warned officials in Muskegon Heights about a dangerously deep pothole at the corner of Waalkes Street and Lincoln Avenue three months ago. “I told the police if you don’t fix that hole somebody is going to get hurt,” said James Harris, who lives on...
by Fix MI State | Sep 9, 2019 | Stormwater & Wastewater
City officials are asking the public to avoid a stretch of Kalamazoo River after a sewage release. The stretch of river under the “no contact advisory” is located between the Kings Highway and Mills Street bridges, Kalamazoo city officials said. The release of sewage...
