by Fix MI State | Apr 25, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Lansing – Legislative leaders and Gov. Rick Snyder have agreed to give Macomb County a $3 million grant to help repair a massive sinkhole in Fraser and will soon vote on legislation to send $100 million in federal water crisis funds to Flint. Senate Majority Leader...
by Fix MI State | Apr 21, 2017 | Roads & Bridges
Several dozen residents in a Hamburg Township subdivision say a six-foot deep sinkhole on Shadow Woods Lane is just the latest in a series of problems with the neighborhood’s two roads, problems that local officials are not addressing adequately. And although the...
by Fix MI State | Apr 20, 2017 | Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
These days, it seems like everyone — whether inside or outside of Michigan — is talking about infrastructure. In late January, for example, news sources reported on a preliminary list prepared by President Trump’s transition team that included about 50 possible...
by Fix MI State | Apr 18, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Flooding last week led to a spill of 38.7 million gallons of partially treated sewage into the Grand River from the the city’s Market Avenue Retention Basin. The millions of gallons of sewage spilled into the river over a course of two...
by Fix MI State | Apr 12, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Construction of the bypass for a sewer line that collapsed Christmas Eve and caused a massive sinkhole on 15 Mile near Hayes Road in Fraser has been completed. “That bypass has now been essentially completed in the last couple of days,” said Candice Miller, Macomb...
by Fix MI State | Apr 9, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater
KALAMAZOO, MI — More than 900 gallons of sewage flowed out of two locations in the city of Kalamazoo Saturday. First, the city’s Department of Public Services was notified at 12:14 p.m. of a sanitary sewer overflow from a manhole located east of 2024...
by Fix MI State | Apr 8, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, MI – Hundreds of thousands of gallons of partially treated sewage has been released after a sanitary system overflow at waste water treatment plants in Owosso and Durand. The Friday, April 7 announcement from Casey Elliott, environmental...
by Fix MI State | Apr 8, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater
The chilly spring wind was blowing the right way Wednesday. Residents on Eberlein Drive in Fraser caught a reprieve. The stench of human excrement wasn’t wafting through the neighborhood — this afternoon. But the hum of earth movers and the rattle of construction...
by Fix MI State | Apr 4, 2017 | Roads & Bridges
Detroit — A $1.2 billion a year infusion to fix Michigan’s aging roads and bridges won’t be enough to stop the decay over the next half-decade, according to a transportation advocacy report Tuesday. The report conducted by TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based national...
by Fix MI State | Apr 3, 2017 | Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
Gov. Rick Snyder announced a pilot program today to start mapping the state’s infrastructure assets — including, roads, bridges, sewer lines, gas lines, electric lines, storm water pipes — in a digital system that would show them in 3D. “Modern infrastructure is...
