Detroit, MI, November 28, 2000 (Detroit News) – For 30 years, raw
sewage that was supposed to have been going to Detroit for safe
treatment, was instead ending up in area waterways, said Doug Martz,
chairman of the Macomb Water Quality Board and St. Clair Channel
Keepers.
“It just goes to show you the magnitude of the pollution problem,” Martz
said. “Here they did one test, by accident, and look what it opened up.”
Workers, who had to poke into pipes as small as 3 feet in diameter, in
October further found a second bulkhead problem in a sanitary sewer. The
crumbling bulkhead allowed effluent, including solvents from a dry cleaners
to empty into storm lines.
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