Boil Water Alert- Oakland County

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Septic in the State of Michigan is basically UN-regulated.
No one checks, inspects, regulates, administers septic in Michigan.

The Michigan Supreme Court has concluded
a municipality can be held liable for,
and is required to prevent,
a discharge that originates within its borders,
even when the discharge is by a private party.

No central system exists to track the locations or
conditions of these systems as Michigan lacks a
statewide sanitary code that would require inspections.

Only 11 of Michigan’s 83 counties conduct septic inspections
at time the time of real estate transaction.

More than half of all new single-family houses built today
in Michigan are not serviced by a public wastewater utility
but instead rely on individual septic systems.

Estimates that at least 130,000 systems statewide are
likely failing and discharging as much as
31 million gallons of sewage per day.