This is gonna hurt...big time-----Price of neglect: Michigan must spend billions on water, sewer fixes

Price of neglect: Michigan must spend billions on water, sewer fixes - Crain's Detroit Business: "Much of Michigan’s water and sewer infrastructure has been neglected for years, threatening public health and in desperate need of repair, an undertaking that experts say could cost $17.5 billion over the next two decades. 
That price tag doesn’t include the cost of replacing lead service pipes across the state, a peril exposed by the ongoing water crisis in Flint.
How shaky is Michigan’s overall water infrastructure?
Consider our faltering network of sewers.
In 2013 and 2014, nearly 25 billion gallons of partially treated and untreated storm and sanitary sewage flowed into Michigan’s waterways.
How much is that?
One billion gallons is enough to fill more than 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
In its most recent report card, released in 2009, ASCE gave Michigan a D+ for its storm water sewers and a C for those that carry waste water.
Even worse, the report card gave the state’s drinking water system a D.
“A significant portion of the state’s primary (water) distribution system is nearing 100 years old,” the report said, adding, “Much of the delivery system, including piping, valves and hydrants, are reaching the end of their anticipated design life, and routine replacement has been postponed for too long....”"