A diver examines a portion of the Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in this frame from a 2012 video shared with the State of Michigan by pipeline operator Enbridge Energy.
A 15,000-pound anchor “decoupled” from a barge doing maintenance work on a pair of oil pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac Wednesday.
That s according to the company operating the pipeline.
On Friday, Enbridge said it was developing a plan to retrieve the anchor and would have it off the lakebed within days.
Both the state and Enbridge said the anchor posed no danger to the line, which was shut down temporarily in 2018 after being struck by another anchor and again last year after a contractor damaged its support structure.
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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.