by Fix MI State | Jul 18, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
The city of Ishpeming is moving along with their 12 million dollar water infrastructure replacement project. According to city officials, everything is right on schedule. The project consists of replacing aging pipes all across the city with new iron pipes that have a...
by Fix MI State | Jul 16, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
A sewage lagoon for Sunset Ridge mobile homes near Portland dumped 2.5 million gallons of partially treated sewage into the Grand River between June 30 and July 2. It wasn’t a planned dump. A report to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality by...
by Fix MI State | Jul 16, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Water main breaks are commonplace when the weather is cold. When the thermometer pushes 90 degrees? Not so much. That’s why it was odd to see several happen this week. Several breaks were reported Wednesday across western Wayne County, though it doesn’t...
by Fix MI State | Jul 16, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
George Cotton said the water had nowhere to go, “Uh, I would say 3-4 feet,” said George Cotton. The water flooded his basement, “You can see all the water and debris floating around and so forth,” said Cotton. A water main broke in front of his home on Friday, “It...
by Fix MI State | Jul 16, 2018 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
Water is central to Michigan’s identity. It is home to 104,252 square miles of water, the most in the contiguous United States. It has 11,000 inland lakes and 3,400miles of shoreline (Austin, Good, and Kolluri 2017). Water is vital to Michigan’s economy, and is used...
by Fix MI State | Jul 10, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Recently this newspaper asked why 2,000-year-old Roman roads are still in good shape when Michigan pavements seem to decay regularly. A few years ago, at the request of legislators, my bureau at the Michigan Department of Transportation prepared pavement designs and...
by Fix MI State | Jul 9, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Drivers should brace themselves for more cases of “buckling” roads so long as hot weather persists. Recent high temperatures in the 90s caused buckling on three Lansing-area highways at least six times since Saturday. Particularly troublesome was...
by Fix MI State | Jul 9, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Hotter than average temperatures so far this summer are causing Michigan’s aging concrete roads to blow up. That’s not an exaggeration: from June 30 to July 4, 90-degree weather caused at least seven instances of highways buckling from extreme pressure....
by Fix MI State | Jul 2, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
The patchwork of infrastructure that transports us, connects us, brings us the utilities we use every day and supports the way we live is deteriorating, both above and below ground. The latest numbers from the Transportation Asset Management Council show 40 percent of...
by Fix MI State | Jul 2, 2018 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
Two dozen beaches across the state are closed or have contamination advisories because of elevated bacteria levels ahead of a scorching hot weekend forecast for metro Detroit. The beaches listed on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Beach Guard...
