May 12, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
A virtual meeting is planned for residents and other stakeholders who will be impacted by a roundabout construction project next year.
The Washtenaw County Road Commission will be building a single-lane roundabout at the intersection of Pontiac Trail and North Territorial Road in Salem Township during the 2022 construction season. Officials say itâs an optimal solution because a roundabout can safely move greater volumes of traffic, including tractor-trailers, through an intersection more efficiently and with less congestion than a traditional intersection at lower speeds.
A press release noted the Road Commission monitors numerous intersections across the county for traffic volumes and safety. It says the intersection at Pontiac Trail and North Territorial Road was selected as North Territorial Road currently has a higher traffic volume than whatâs recommended for the existing design.
And then another. And another. And four more.
In maybe a third of a square foot of dirt, the University of Maryland entomologists find at least seven cicadas a rate just shy of a million per acre. A nearby yard yielded a rate closer to 1.5 million.
And there’s much more afoot. Trillions of the red-eyed black bugs are coming, scientists say.
Within days, a couple weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) will emerge after 17 years underground. There are many broods of periodic cicadas that appear on rigid schedules in different years, but this is one of the largest and most noticeable. They’ll be in 15 statesfrom Indiana to Georgia to New York; they’re coming out now in mass numbers in Tennessee and North Carolina.
That s when the manure appeared, close to the house. It s just a s - pile over there, Jaidyn Schwarzel said.
Lambarth has tenants living in the house who are forced to deal with smelling the cow poop wall every day. It s like you can t leave the window open. The whole upstairs will smell like it, Coyne Gatto said. .
When asked about the poop wall, the neighbor who built it said, It s not a poop wall. It s a compost fence.
It’s not clear if the manure wall violates any local or state land ordinances.