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JUNE 11, 2025 • Vol. 37, No. 12
Trustees vote against ITC, hospital power lines CLINTON TOWNSHIP — After a long, hot night in council chambers at the Robert J. Cannon Civic Center, Clinton Township trustees voted to deny a power
line project along 19 Mile Road on June 2. First brought to the board in 2024 with the purpose of connecting the Henry Ford Macomb Hospital expansion to the power grid, the project became embroiled in controversy after residents of the Westchester Village Condominiums took issue with
the expected route as it would suspend the lines roughly 50 feet away from their homes. What followed were months of outreach, experiments, Freedom of Information Act requests and lobbying from the township to back an alternative route that would send the lines along Dalcoma Drive on land
owned by Macomb Community College — an alternative that was handedly rejected by the college’s trustees on May 21. “I started this process looking at the issue knowing we need power to the hospital,” Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem See POWER LINES on page 12A
Miller slams Oakland drain office over discharge response BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller released a statement on June 5 criticizing the office of Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner Jim Nash over its response to a state agency about recent discharges into the Red Run. On April 29, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy sent a letter to the Oakland County Water Resources Commission about a sanitary sewer overflow that occurred at the Red Run on April 3. The agency’s letter required the commission to provide information about the April 3 overflow, an evaluation of operating procedures at the George W. Kuhn Retention Treatment Basin that could affect overflows and provide a corrective action plan to prevent further overSee DRAIN on page 20A
Photo provided by Macomb County Public Works Office
The outfall of the George W. Kuhn Basin at the Red Run on April 3, 2025, hours after a 1.2-million-gallon overflow of sanitary sewage.
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