The Great Lakes Water Authority board on Wednesday unanimously accepted CEO Sue McCormick s resignation before reviewing a new timeline of the electrical problems hampering the authority during last month s massive rainfall and subsequent flooding.
McCormick said her employees believed that the one of the system s pumping stations known as Freud which was partially operational despite an electrical outage could still handle the anticipated storm because rainfall predications were between 1.5 to 3 inches.
But those predictions were wrong.
In some areas
, more than 7 inches fell the night of June 25 and into June 26, overwhelming the GLWA system and flooding residents homes
, primarily in Detroit, Dearborn and the Grosse Pointes.
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