by Fix MI State | May 30, 2018 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
Jon Allan, director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes, grew up in northeastern Ohio and remembers when the river near his home ran blue or orange, depending on what kinds of industrial waste were being dumped in the water that day. Speaking as part of the...
by Fix MI State | May 30, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
An estimated 900 gallons of sewage overflowed from a manhole near an abandoned mobile home park in Kalamazoo. According to a release from the city of Kalamazoo, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 9 the Department of Public Services received a report of a sanitary sewer...
by Fix MI State | May 30, 2018 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
One of the state’s most pressing issues will be discussed at eight area libraries through the month of November. Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner Jim Nash will be kicking off National Infrastructure Week, May 15 through 21, with two informational town hall...
by Fix MI State | May 30, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
An estimated 1,500 to 2,000 gallons of sanitary sewage was discharged following a sewer main break in Fort Gratiot Thursday. A resident reported the leak at the corner of Helen Avenue and Krafft Road to the township department of public works about 12:30 p.m....
by Fix MI State | May 29, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
A health advisory has been issued after more than 8,000 gallons (30,283 liters) of raw sewage spilled into northern Michigan wetlands that are connected to Grand Traverse Bay. The Grand Traverse County Health Department says the spill in Acme Township happened Tuesday...
by Fix MI State | May 22, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Ann Arbor officials acknowledge the city’s streets are in rough shape and they say they want to change that, but it could take several years of catching up. “It took time for our roads to get this bad, and it will take time to make them better,”...
by Fix MI State | May 22, 2018 | Dams & Other
Work has been approved for a Flint dam that has needed improvements since the late 1970s. City council passed a resolution last week approving a $322,000 contract with Fisher Contracting Co. for repairs at the Kearsley Dam. The move came months after the city’s...
by Fix MI State | May 22, 2018 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
More than 300 homes in Kalamazoo’s Edison neighborhood will no longer be connected to lead water service lines after this summer. More than 302 lead service lines will be replaced after a $1.9 million contract was awarded to Comstock-based SWT Excavating, Inc....
by Fix MI State | May 17, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
A joint meeting between two parties invested in the Livingston Regional Sewer System took place in Hartland Township. Members of the Livingston County Department of Public Works Board met with the Hartland Township Board of Trustees, Tuesday evening. Hartland Township...
by Fix MI State | May 17, 2018 | Stormwater & Wastewater
A Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) occurred from 8:03 p.m. to 11:36 p.m. on on May 9. The reported discharge is from a private or municipal separate sewer collection system (not wastewater treatment plant) during wet or dry weather, or a dry weather discharge from a...
