The Detroit News. In Clinton Township, developers are being pushed to include wetlands in projects and to protect existing wetlands, while Washington Township officials are drafting an ordinance to make sure new building projects don't destroy any of the township's 25 wetlands. This is something we can directly affect.
Developers buy up a lot of land and can exert pressure.
But man-made wetlands require areas with a lot of space. First, by creating an ordinance that will allow the township to create wetlands of less than 5 acres. Under this setup, the water would still go into a storm drain, but would be filtered naturally into the earth through the new wetland. He said he did this because he doesn't have a wetland on his property and is concerned about rain water carrying pollutants into the creek. The watershed council recently completed a survey of wetlands in the Stony Creek watershed, which rests in Oakland and Macomb townships.