Detroit City turns down thousands to fix pipes

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http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/consultant%3A-31-percent-of-detroit%27s-fresh-drinking-water-is-going-down-the-drain-and-you-pay-for-it


Consultant: 31 percent of Detroit's fresh drinking water goes down the drain


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This time, The Action News Investigators are headed into a big, abandoned, multi-unit building on Cadillac Boulevard. A Channel 7 viewer told us fresh drinking water was gushing out of a wall in the basement.

As I hit the bottom of the basement stairs, I could smell the chlorine. With an Action News photographer in tow, I navigated through a pool in the basement and headed toward the front of the building.
There, fresh drinking water was gushing out of a big pipe and going right down the drain. A neighbor told us it had been flowing for months.

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When we pressed city officials last week, they acknowledged the problem is vast. They told us they’ve shut off leaking water in 12 thousand vacant houses in the last three years, and those are just the ones they knew about.

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So why in the world did the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department turn down money to help them find leaks? We’re talking about free money, $300,000 from the State of Michigan for a pilot project.

(since Detroit didn't want it, it went to Grand Rapids. Farmington Hills also got a grant and has now saved a lot of water and money)

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props to the investigating team

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