The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
By ROBERT A. COFFEY

Although the master drain
plan proposes construction Of a
vast interlocking system cover
ing all of South Macomb and
costing close to four million dol
lars, it by no means will layout
complete house to house sewage
facilities for the area.
The plan approaches the
problem from an entirely diff
ferent angle. At present all
community sewage systems are
regarded as menace and the
construction of any more sys-
TENS would only increase the
pollution and health hazard
which the plan aims at elimina-
ting.
Il Is intended, instead, to
provide a method of disposal
rather than of drainage. In fact.
rather than see more community
sewage systems installed with
out the master drain plan, the
authorities would prefer q gen.
eral use Of septic tanks.
BUT ONE OUTLET
AS it stands at present, only
the Nine Mile road disposal
plant is in q position to handle
sewage disposal from the area.
This is, however, a primary
treatment plant and its capacity
to handle the extended and more
populous area is doubted.
The lake st. Clair shoreline
is now the dumping ground for
sewage for all of South Macomb
as far north as Mount Clemens
and Selfridge Field. To this Is
added an additional burden
from the land-locked Southern
Oakland County which pours
sewage matter through natural
streams and open bitches across
Macomb County to the lake
shore.
The staggering accumulation
Of pollution gradually mounts
till It reaches the shore and q
dumped untreated into the lake
waters. ~
NTERCEPTOR SYSTEM &
To clear away, once and for
all, this pollution dumped above
the water intakes OF Detroit and
Wayne County shores commune
ties, and along a like line which
has limitless possibilities for
resort developments, the master
drain plan proposes . huge sys-
tenn Of interceptors leading to
jefferson avenue and running
south along Jefferson to the
Detroit Disposal plant.
Sewage from Oakland County
would be intercepted by a mas
ter drain running south on De-
quindre road. This would clear
up pollution in Red Run and
the Clinton River. It would
divert the flow directly into the
Detroit system at Eight Mile
road.
South Macomb requires q more
intricate layout due to the var
iation in the natural flow over
the area. Parts of Warren
Township drains to the west In
. northerly direction.
Oakland County presents q
problem added to by untreated
sewage from Ferndale, Berkeley,
Clawson, Huntington Woods.
Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak and
Hazel Park. The accumulation
IL estimated to reach 10 million
gallons q day. This has no out
let except through Red Run and
into the Clinton River past
Mount Clemens and then to
the shore where IL IL dumped
untreated.
50 INCH OUTLET
This flow would be cut of
from Macomb County w 4
90 inch tunnel starting at Twelve
Mile and Campbell and running
south to Detroit.
For the relief Of Macomb
County from Eight Mile TO Four.
teen Mile, the plan proposes
construction Of approximately
IL and . half miles Of ~ and 90
inch tunnel mains following the
shoreline. An extension Of %
and 80 inch interceptor sewer
would reach almost three miles
to Mount Clemens and adjacent
area.
This general plan Of q huge
interceptor to carry the sewage
flow south along the shore line
instead Of allowing II TO flow
70 the lake must, however, be
bolstered by special provisions
for the low-lying and handbook.
ed section Of Warren Township
where the greatest rlte Of now
will arise.
SERIES OF MAINS
To provide for carrying sew
age from this section, the plan
proposes = series Of force mains
and pumping stations which
would elevate the now and ~.
turn IL In . southwest direction
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