Dingell Pushes For State And Federal Assistance After Floods In Washtenaw And Wayne Counties wemu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wemu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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President Biden is pushing congress to approve a $579-billion deal reached with members of both parties in Congress.
Recent heavy rains and flooding, especially in the Detroit area, prompted environmentalists to join Tlaib in promoting swift passage of the plan.
Christy McGilllivray of the Sierra Club says Michigan needs to invest at least $2.1-billion in wastewater infrastructure. “We need to do this to separate our sanitary and storm sewers to cope with these heavy rain events, McGillivray states. We need to prioritize grants, not loans, to vulnerable communities.”
In pushing the infrastructure deal, Congresswoman Tlaib says the government must act because the private sector “has failed us over and over again, adding When I saw Ecorse Creek in Dearborn Heights, which impacts a lot of communities, get up close to nine feet, homes were just completely under water, and famillies again just felt completely helpless.
That doesn’t account for the billions in other infrastructure needs, from drinking water and sewers to roads and bridges.
Federal estimates say fixes and updates to the nation’s water infrastructure system could cost $188 billion over the next 20 years, said Laura Rubin, director of the Healing Our Waters Great Lakes Consortium, which focuses on Great Lakes restoration issues. Michigan’s share of that is about $15 billion.
“That’s not even taking the disasters and increased precipitation into account,” Rubin said. “We know we’ve been under-investing in it.”
The infrastructure bill now under consideration in Congress would spend $1.2 trillion on a range of projects, including roads, bridges, broadband and public transportation. It would also include $55 billion toward water improvement.
Michigan cities detail flood fallout; gov, Detroit leaders to give afternoon update detroitnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from detroitnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.