The DEQ Friday (June 22) announced $3 million in grants statewide to improve water quality in Michigan’s lakes and streams. The grants, issued through Michigan’s Nonpoint Source Program, support development of watershed plans to improve water quality as well as funding for existing program activities. Several of the projects will result in water bodies meeting [...]
LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday (June 14) signed legislation requiring the Department of Environmental Quality to extend permit processing deadlines at the request of the applicant. Senate Bill 744, sponsored by state Sen. Mike Kowall, requires the DEQ to allow an additional period of 120 days to a year for a permit to [...]
Governor Rick Snyder has proclaimed Sunday (July 17th) Lake Superior Day to highlight the beauty and regional significance of the world’s largest freshwater lake. Honored annually since the early 1990s, Lake Superior Day is celebrated around the basin on the third Sunday in July with activities to acknowledge and appreciate all that the lake has [...]
It appears the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will conduct a public hearing in Three Rivers sometime in mid-January regarding its order for the city to make improvements to its water supply to assure that residents and businesses are provided safe drinking water that meets state standards. James Enright, the Grand Rapids attorney hired [...]
The Three Rivers City Commission has authorized the hiring of “special counsel” to provide expert assistance as it works to respond to an order from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to make improvements in the city’s water supply.
The Three Rivers City Commission has voted to direct City Manager Joe Bippus to “take the necessary steps to make the Clean Water Plant an asset to our community” and to make the undertaking “the highest priority.”
The Three Rivers City Commission has approved a letter to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality outlining the city’s plan for assuring a safe drinking water supply in the community. The action during Tuesday evening’s (April 21st) commission meeting came in response to a January 30th letter from Gary Wozniak, District Engineer with the DEQ, [...]
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has told the City of Three Rivers that it “must make changes to the water treatment system to prevent future coliform standard violations.” The message came through a letter from Gary Wozniak, District Engineer in the DEQ’s Kalamazoo District Office, Field Operations Division, Water Bureau. The letter identifies seven [...]
The Three Rivers City Commission has authorized City Manager Joe Bippus and City Attorney Pat O’Malley to continue discussions with Lockport Township regarding extension of city water service to approximately 25 properties along North Main Street. The direction came Tuesday evening (September 16th) in response to a report from Bippus regarding a recent meeting with [...]
The Department of Environmental Quality has announced the awarding of 10 Waterfront Redevelopment Grants totaling $777,371 to support projects that revitalize waterfronts, create economic benefit for communities, and provide waterfront access for the public — and Three Rivers is on the list! “The DEQ is excited to partner with these 10 communities in working to [...]
