Michigan announces $15M for wastewater management projects

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) highlighted over $15 million in grants for wastewater infrastructure as part of the MI Clean Water Plan.

The MI Clean Water Plan grants include funding through the state’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and Substantial Public Health Risk Project (SPHRP) Program to help manage wastewater to protect public health and Michigan’s natural resources.

Some of the recent grants through CWSRF include:

• City of Harrisville — $10,605,000. This project involves improvements to the City of Harrisville’s wastewater facilities. These activities include removing and replacing the lagoon liners with geosynthetic clay and high-density polyethylene, selected sewer and utility maintenance hole rehabilitation, and replacement of the Huron Street and Clark Road pump stations.
• Great Lakes Water Authority — $2,342,280. The Great Lakes Water Authority Water Resource Recovery Facility Pump Station 1 improvements project consists of rehabilitating and rebuilding eight main lift pumps and motors, replacing valves and gates, new elbow flow meters, relocating electrical starters in a building addition, enhancing instrumentation and controls with a pump health monitor system, structural enrichments, mechanical plumbing, process piping to venturi meter vaults, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.
• Forsyth Township — $375,000. This project is a sanitary sewer replacement along the M-35 corridor in Forsyth Township.
• City of Burton — $295,000. Phase 3 sanitary sewer collection system improvements consisting of in-kind open cut replacement of approximately 733 feet of 8- to 12-inch diameter sanitary sewer, full length cured-in-place pipe lining of approximately 29,887 feet of 8- to 21-inch diameter sanitary sewer, and rehabilitation of an estimated 205 sanitary sewer utility maintenance holes.

The announcement also included one wastewater improvement grant through SPHRP:

• City of Caseville — $2,000,000. The City of Caseville’s wastewater collection system includes an 11,000-foot force main that carries all city wastewater to their lagoon system. The force main is actively leaking untreated sewage to the groundwater and putting surrounding water bodies, including Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron, at risk of contamination. This project includes replacement of the force main and upgrading outdated pump stations.