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AUGUST 1, 2024 • Vol. 36, No. 16
COMMUNITY CELEBRATES REC CENTER’S 20 YEARS
Township sewer mains to be lined BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Travelers along Romeo Plank Road may encounter some delays in the near future. Those with light stomachs may not be so interested in the reason why. For those who can handle the dirty truth, the sanitary sewer that runs along Romeo Plank Road is in need of a new lining. Workers from pipe lining company Insituform Technologies will handle that work, accessing the damaged pipes near where Romeo Plank meets 21 Mile Road. The pipes in question connect the township’s sewer system with the county system. “As sewage travels down over time, sewage builds up hydrogen sulfide gas,” Macomb Township Department of Public Works Director Kevin Johnson said. “That gas eats the pipe, especially concrete pipe, and so this pipe is eaten quite a bit to the point where you can see some metal wire mesh showing, which lets us know it is in a critical moment of needing to get repaired. To prevent the hydrogen
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MACOMB TOWNSHIP — A birthday party for a building? It is more likely than you may think. On the evening of July 19, families and community members converged on the Macomb Township Recreation Center to celebrate its 20th birthday. Games, activities, refreshments and more were all there to provide a good time for guests young and old. “It was a perfect evening for us,” Macomb Township Parks and Recreation Director Sal DiCaro said. “It was beautiful weather. We had a nice crowd. About 1,200 people showed up. A lot of activities. A lot of people we haven’t seen in a long time, old members and stuff like that. It was just a really nice event, and everyone there had a great time.” While some attendees of the celebration could not think of a day where the center was not there at the corner of Macomb Street and Broughton Road in the township center, others could remember a time when the land it stands on was not too different from the forests and farm fields that still surround it. After all, the recreation center has only been there for 20 years. See TOWNSHIP on page 10A
Photos by Liz Carnegie
Games were part of the activities at the Macomb Township Recreation Center’s 20th birthday celebration on July 19.
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