Green Stormwater Infrastructure News

Detroit aims to curb street flooding and basement backups in its west side Brightmoor neighborhood next year through a $3.4 million grant and capital improvement funding package. DWSD will install 24 bioretention gardens, which will affect 100 homes, designed to receive and treat runoff from rainfall or snowmelt from nearby streets. Construction is expected to begin and finish in 2024, pending City Council approval.

Detroit Water and Sewage Department said Tuesday it is seeking approval of a $3.4 million initiative to create bioretention areas in the city to reduce basement backups and street flooding that it hopes to complete by the end of 2024.

Detroit Water and Sewer Department is adding 24 bioretention gardens in the Brightmoor area to reduce flooding.

The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has brought some much-needed relief to a neighborhood in the area of Oakman Boulevard that has been prone to flooding. The relief has come in the form of the Oakman Boulevard Stormwater Project.

Detroit Water and Sewerage Department with its 11 new gardens built into the medians of neighborhood roads now have a place for all that rain to go.

The Oakman Bioretention Gardens are the first and only city stormwater project that includes surface and subsurface.