Excavators are running full tilt in a part of Detroit’s Jefferson-Chalmers community—that’s where the Great Lakes Water Authority is working on a new pump station.
Watch Randy Wimbley’s video report:
Jefferson-Chalmers residents raise concerns about GLWA pump station project
It’s meant to help collect sanitary flow from existing sewers built more than a century ago, but residents have concerns about the project and its impact on their neighborhood
“Why would you put it in the middle of our homes instead of putting it somewhere else in another industrial area?” is a question Vanessa Cartwright asks every time she sees or hears the construction at GLWA’s proposed pump station site.
The project is meant to improve the reliability of the existing Freud storm pump station, critical infrastructure serving Jefferson-Chalmers and the east side of GLWA’s service area.
People living here are concerned about the heavy industrial use project happening in a residential area…