Wednesday, January 30 2013 6:28 PM EST2013-01-30 23:28:05 GMT
(01/30/13) - Saginaw Police have a mystery on their hands. They are trying to find out the identity of a woman whose body was found near a vacant building. They are also still trying to figure out how
Saginaw Police have a mystery on their hands. They are trying to find out the identity of a woman whose body was found near a vacant building. They are also still trying to figure out how she died.
BAY COUNTY (WJRT) -
(01/30/13) - Wednesday, Bay County's road commission, 11 townships and three
cities officially signed on to a water supply agreement. The partnership will
provide a new source of drinking water for most of Bay County.
We're told the Bay Area Water Supply Agreement took a decade to plan. Wednesday,
all the paperwork was signed, and by the summer of 2015, a new state of the art
water treatment plant is expected to be up in Bay County.
The project is estimated to cost nearly $60 million. State funds will cover some
of the project's costs.
The new plant will be operated and maintained by the Bay County Road
Commission's Department of Water and Sewer. It will be built on this same
property, but the water would come from an intake deep in Lake Huron, near Au
Gres.
Right now, Bay City runs the water plant that serves most of the county, and the
water is pulled from the Saginaw Bay. With this new agreement, each township and
city involved in the partnership will have ownership in the water treatment
plant.
The changes are expected to create higher quality water at an affordable price.
Bay County customers, about 38,000 in all, should notice the difference.
"Their water will be the clearest, best water that they could get," said Terry
Watson, Bangor Township supervisor.
Elected officials are calling this a historic day for Bay County.
"It's a monumental, unprecedented agreement in Bay county for 15 units of
government to get together and agree to construct a new plant and run it
basically through the government entities that we have in place now," said Tom
Paige, Bay Co. Dept. of Water & Sewer.
"To me, it's just a great day, a great day. It's been a long time in coming,"
said Richard Gromaski, of the Bay County Road Commission.
Under the new partnership, we're told water rates are expected to go up, but
officials believe the improvements will save customers money in the long run.
