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Originally Posted by jonathan.jam
The thought now is that scrappers may be responsible for the highway pumping stations not functioning properly...
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And the Free Press reported, yesterday, that state officials are backing off that conjecture.
EDIT: It seems
MDOT says that 58% of the freeway pump houses in Michigan are in "poor" condition, and that 139 or the 165 are in Metro Detroit. The News article, however, also quotes them as saying that even working at full condition wouldn't have much prevented what happened in Southeast Michigan, which was a natural catastrophe.