ElmwoodTownship.com

Source: Brian McGillivary – Traverse City Record-Eagle

January 17, 2009

“Officials from rural townships want an investigation of the firm that designed Grand Traverse County’s septage treatment plant before they agree to new taxes on their residents.”

“A proposed assessment, possibly as high as $40 a year, would be levied on owners of septic tanks in the county to help pay for the struggling $8 million facility. The plant was overbuilt and needs about four times the volume of septic tank waste it currently receives to be financially viable, a recent study concluded.”

“Acme, Elmwood, East Bay, Peninsula and Garfield townships guaranteed the plant’s bond payments, and supervisors from those townships ran the project under the umbrella of the Sewer and Water Committee.”