The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-18
Mortgage Ban
Faces District
Contracts Bosis
Of Controversy

A showdown between state
and federal authorities and
South Macomb over failure of
this area TO use the Lake Shore
lnterceptor took place Wednes-
day, bringing into the open
threats of litigation by the state
and ban against housing and
other projects by Federal sgen-
cies.
Following closely on the
failure OF East Detroit and
Warren Township TO approve
rates for sewage treatment in
the interceptor district events
moved swiftly this week:
ASK STATE SUITS
The State Stream Control
Commission asked the attorney
general to institute court action
to halt pollution of Lake St
Clair by sewage through the
Nine Mile drain;
Six Wayne County communi-
ties, including the City Of De-
troit, were Officially notified
that pollution was dangerous to
swimming and a menace to
drinking water of the area, a
warning which may bring court
action against Macomb from
these municipalities;
The State recommended to the
Federal Works Agency and Fed
eral Housing authorities that
approval of additional HOUSING
projects in South Macomb
would add materially to the
pollution problem
FILA ENTERS PICTURE
Raymond H. Foley, state Fed
eral Housing director, personal
~ notified Mayor Richard
Maxwell, Of East Detroit, and
Supervisor Earl Tallman, Of
Warren Township, that housing
approvals will be withheld until
satisfactory sewage disposal ar
rangements are made.
A spokesman for the State
Stream Control Commission in
Lansing said their planned legal
action, and other methods Of
persuasion being used to clear
up the pollution conditions,
were result of the refusal of
East Detroit and Warren Town
ship to join with St. Clair
Shores, Roseville and Center
Line in accepting tentative sew
age disposal rates set by Drain
/ Commissioner William c. Har-
per.
The commission notified High
land Park, Crosse Pointe Woods
and Detroit that their water sup
pl, systems are definitely men
aced by the partially-treated
sewage flowing from the Nine
Mile drain at st. Clair Shores.
Warnings that swimming in the
upper Detroit River and at st.
Clair Shores, Crosse Pointe
Shores, Crosse Pointe Farms,
Crosse Pointe Park and Crosse
Pointe is dangerous, we're also
issued.
Relative to the direct threat
TO halt all Federal aid projects,
including large and small hous-
ing construction, Supervisor
Tallman said Wednesday that
he planned an immediate con-
ference with Mayor Maxwell, Of
East Detroit, and hoped for a
showdown with Federal
authorities on this subject.
For some time Federal Hous-
ing officials have shown re-
luctance to approve housing
projects, sorely needed in our
township Tallman said. 1T is
true that some have been pass
ed, but housing is still in a de-
plorable condition, with a dozen
large trailer villages situated
in the township. Most of our
working class is employed in
helping the war effort, and we
have observed many other areas
receiving housing project APP
prevails when ours have been
refused or delayed"
Tallman said he doubted il
any new FILA attitude would
make material change in the
housing project situation, but
said he welcomed the present
show down" so that Warren
Township may learn exactly
where il stands
Any court action in the lake
pollution case would be aimed
at the Drain Commissioner as
director of the interceptor dis
trict, and at the district itself,
not at Macomb County at large.
In contracts setting up the
South Macomb drainage district,
the county itself has been spe-
officially freed from liability.
DRASTIC STEP
Following repeated warnings
10 Macomb County TO halt pol
luton of the lake by use of the
Nine Mile drain. tho states inn