The Observer & Eccentric newspapers have a story about the new head of the Alliance of Rouge Communities.  What I find fascinating is that Tim Faas, the new chair, has a very positive view of Rouge cleanup efforts.  This is in stark opposition to some recent press related to the Rouge.  Here’s an excerpt from the story and the link:

Faas is assuming the job of chairman at an interesting time for Alliance, which has a membership that includes about 40 communities, and several counties. Currently the ARC is in a legal dispute with the Michigan Department of Environment over new requirements for storm water management plans, which each community has to file with the state to show that it is complying with federal water quality regulations.

According to Faas, most of the ARC communities believe the new requirements are too costly, because they will force communities to do much more water sampling of storm water discharges into the river than is currently required.

“The ARC position is we’ve been doing a very good job with our monitoring program, better than the rest of the state. This will be very costly to our communities,” Faas said.

Full story:

http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20081214/NEWS16/812140586/1033/rss21

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