Thursday, March 28, 2024

Septic Spat

Public hearing gets messy over proposed septic system ordinance

It was just around the two-hour mark when the public hearing began to spiral out of control.

For the past five years, the Mid-Michigan District Health Department has been working with officials in Clinton, Gratiot and Montcalm counties to advance a septic system ordinance in the belief that failing septic systems are causing human sewage to flow into local rivers.

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