HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1979.10.09 - 12501MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION NO. 9125
By:
Re: Support of New Legislation to Regionalize the
Detroit Water and Sewer System
To: The Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Detroit Wastewater Treatment Plant has been
cited by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as the
nation's single largest source of pollution to the Great Lakes, and
WHEREAS, over the past few years the sewage treatment
rates have risen over 430%, and
WHEREAS, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department still
has massive problems in the areas of adequate staffing and training
of personnel, and
WHEREAS, outside consultants hired to-date have cost over
$71 million, and more is currently being expended, and
WHEREAS, the actual performance by Detroit in treating
wastewater effluent has yet to meet EP.A. secondary treatment
standards in spite of all-out efforts of extraordinary proportions.
for additional personnel and in dollars expended, and
WHEREAS, more than half of the population served by the
Detroit Water and Sewer System is located outsiae the City of
Detroit, and more than half of the revenues of the system, based
on user charges, come from customers outside of the City of Detroit;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners strongly supports the program of Oakland
County Drain Commissioner George W. Kuhn to engagein legislative
efforts, including the possibility of an initiatory petition drive,
to restructure the Detroit Metropolitan Water and Sewer System
into a regional water and waste water system operated by an regional
agency controlled on a one man-one vete concept by all ofthe
communities served by the system.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution
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forwarded
#9129 October 9, 1979
Moved by Patterson supported by Per inoff the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Patterson supported by Perinoff that Resolution #9129 be adopted.
AYES: Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Moxley, Murphy, Page, Patterson, Perinoff,
Pernick, Peterson, Price, Roth, Aaron, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Dunaskiss, Fortino,
Gabler, Gorsline, Hobart, Kasper, Kelly, McDonald. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, Resolution #9129 was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #9129 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
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Commissioners at their meeting held on October 9, 1979
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
9th October 79 this ...... ...... day
Lynn D. Allen..... .......... ..... ..Clerk
By Deputy Clerk