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The Montgomery Drain Project has been under construction since 2020. It’s a multi-million-dollar project created to stop pollution from going into the Red Cedar River and now officials say they expect it to be done in less than 2 years.

Michigan's highways, storm sewers, and dams are built based on old assumptions about how much rain they would have to handle. Ingham County Drain Commissioner, Patrick Lindemann says our infrastructure now needs to adapt, "We have to start to plan to rebuild our infrastructure to accommodate."

That number should be concerning folks! 75,000 pounds of trash, waste and more were found in the Red Cedar River. There is a $35 million anti-pollution project was introduced to help compact the issue, and get the river back on track by at least fall. If the project works as intended, we could see pollution go anywhere from 94 to 96 percent as an average. Get our free mobile app “What we’ve done is we’ve rebuilt the drain to have more capacity within it and we built more storage which it didn’t have any storage at all,”  Patrick Lindemann, the Ingham County Drain Commissioner. “I...