The Detroit Free Press reports -- "The Detroit City Council approved today on a 6-0 vote a $314 million portion of a $1 billion tunnel system to store sewage and storm runoff during heavy rain with the city up against a Sept. 28 deadline to act or face the loss of low-interest loans [as outlined in a September 24 letter from the MDEQ] that could have cost ratepayers an extra $100 million in interest on construction bonds and put the city in violation of its water pollution permit."
Click here for the rest of the story. Read Here for more information about the Upper Rouge CSO Tunnel project. Click here for a copy of the City's NPDES pollution permit.
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