Water Quality Monitoring Target of Fed Funds -- The Times Herald

This is good news for people in St. Clair River - MI.

Water quality monitoring target of federal funds
By CHRIS SEBASTIAN
Times Herald

The federal government’s spending bill approved over the weekend will send more than a half-million dollars to the Blue Water Area for a long-awaited water quality monitoring system on the St. Clair River.

U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, on Monday announced that St. Clair and Macomb counties will split $650,000 to develop a system to monitor the river for chemical spills that originate on either side of the international border.

This is the first time the federal government has allotted money for a monitoring system. No such system now exists.

The money will require a 45% match from the two counties, bringing the total amount to about $1.2 million.

The counties are already working on deciding what type of system would best benefit the millions of people who receive their drinking water from the river and Lake St. Clair.

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