by Fix MI State | Nov 3, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater, Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Roads & Bridges
In multiple stories over the past year, Bridge Magazine has focused on shameful and alarming examples of Michigan’s aging, failing and overwhelmed infrastructure. Sadly, as one Bridge headline so accurately noted, our Legislature’s answer has been “ignore everything.”...
by Fix MI State | Nov 2, 2017 | Roads & Bridges
DETROIT – Here is the list of Michigan Department of Transportation weekend construction projects for Nov. 3 through Nov. 5. Here’s the full list from MDOT for Aug. 18-21 (all projects weather dependent): Detroit-Windsor Tunnel CLOSED Sun-Thu overnights,...
by Fix MI State | Oct 31, 2017 | Roads & Bridges
The Michigan highway department is installing a variety of safety features on more than 400 miles of roadways in southwest Michigan including some in Calhoun County. The projects include work on a 4 1/2 mile section of M-37 from Morgan Road to the Barry County line...
by Fix MI State | Oct 30, 2017 | Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
Michigan Department of Transportation officials said drainage improvements made along a flood-prone stretch of U.S. 31 in recent years were overpowered last week when Tannery Creek also overran with water. The flooding that occurred on Tuesday was a familiar...
by Fix MI State | Oct 30, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
FLINT, MI — Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June showed the city’s 90th percentile for lead...
by Fix MI State | Oct 26, 2017 | Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
The U.S. economy is the largest in the world, topping a GDP of $18.6 trillion in 2016. An economic powerhouse as massive and diversified as the United States depends on a network of highways, bridges, airports, and dams to thrive. And while the economy has grown every...
by Fix MI State | Oct 26, 2017 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
When a massive water main broke this week in Oakland County and made tap water unsafe to drink for 305,000 residents, a top utility official called the mishap “unprecedented.” Experts fear it could be something else: a byproduct of aging infrastructure in Michigan...
by Fix MI State | Oct 25, 2017 | Dams & Other, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters
(WWJ) Repairs should begin this morning on the broken water main in west Oakland County that is affecting more than 300,000 people. WWJ’s Charlie Langton was there when a new section of water main arrived at the site of Monday night’s break in Farmington Hills....
by Fix MI State | Oct 25, 2017 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Stormwater & Wastewater
More than a quarter of a million people in Michigan’s richest county have to boil their drinking water this week. If you haven’t heard, that’s because a four-foot wide water transmission line apparently broke in Farmington Hills Monday night. This has gotten a lot of...
by Fix MI State | Oct 25, 2017 | Roads & Bridges
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Two major road construction projects are scheduled to take place next summer in Branch County. The Michigan Department of Transportation hosted an open house on Tuesday at the Henry L. Brown Municipal Building in Coldwater on the paving of...
