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Projects Selected for Funding


Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Projects


Farmington Hills Storm Sewers & Septic Data Development
Lead Agency: Oakland County GIS Utility

Canton Township Utility Coverages Project
Lead Agency: Canton Township

Superior Township Utility & Parcel Development Project
Lead Agency: Superior Township

Wayne General GIS Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Wayne

Inkster Storm Sewer Data Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Inkster

Westland GIS Data Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Westland

Plymouth Township GIS Development Project
Lead Agency: Plymouth Township

Ypsilanti Township GIS Conversion Project
Lead Agency: Ypsilanti Township & Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority

Van Buren Township GIS Development Project
Lead Agency: Van Buren Township

Enhancement of Current GIS Public Storm Sewer Layer Project
Lead Agency: City of Livonia

Romulus Environmental Data Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Romulus

Dearborn Storm Sewer Data Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Dearborn

On-Site Sewage Disposal Data Management Project
Lead Agency: Wayne County Department of Public Health

Southfield Storm System Data Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Southfield

GIS Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Melvindale

Septic System & Illicit Discharge Data Development Project
Lead Agency: City of Novi

Septic System & Storm Sewer Data Development
Lead Agency: Dearborn Heights

Geo-Spatial Metadata Application
Lead Agency: Wayne County GIS Management Unit

Building GIS Capacity to Protect the Rouge River
Lead Agency: City of Birmingham

GIS to Supplement Storm Water Master Plans
Lead Agency: Farmington Hills & West Bloomfield

GIS Data for Water Quality Indices & Wetlands Assessment
Lead Agency: City of West Bloomfield

GIS to Support Illicit Discharge Elimination Plan
Lead Agency: City of Livonia

Fundamental GIS Project
Lead Agency: City of Farmington

GIS of Septic Field Data & Soil Erosion
Lead Agency: City of Westland


Storm Water Projects


Ford Bridge Retrofit, Implementation of Illicit Discharge & Public Education Plans
Lead Agency: City of Dearborn

Garden City Storm Water Ordinances, Storm Sewer Base Map, Implementation of Illicit Discharge Elimination, and Public Education Plans
Lead Agency: Garden City

Inkster Storm Water Ordinances, Implementation of Illicit Discharge Elimination & Public Education Plans Project
Lead Agency: City of Inkster

River Watch Program
Lead Agency: Friends of the Rouge

Randolph Street Drain Project
Lead Agency: City of Northville

Storm Water Drainage Master Plan
Lead Agencies: West Bloomfield Township & Farmington Hills

SOCWA Healthy Lawn & Garden Education Project
Lead Agency: Southeastern Oakland County Waste Authority (SOCWA)

City of Wayne Storm Water Project
Lead Agency: City of Wayne

Oxbow Restoration Project
Lead Agency: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

Quarton Lake & Springdale Park Restoration Project
Lead Agency: City of Birmingham

Haggerty/Ingersoll Regional Detention Basin
Lead Agency: City of Novi

Dunbarton Regional Detention Basin
Lead Agency: City of Novi

Oakland County Illicit Connection Program
Lead Agency: Oakland County Drain Commissioners’s Office

Rouge Education Project 1998-1999
Lead Agency: Friends of the Rouge


Recreation & Habitat Projects


Study & Concept Plan for Bell Creek Park Area Project
Lead Agency: Redford Township

Wetlands Education Project
Lead Agency: Garden City Public Schools

Interpretation & Educational System along Tonquish Creek
Lead Agency: Plymouth Township

West Bloomfield Native Plants Installation Project
Lead Agency: West Bloomfield

Design & Construction of Park & Trail in Civic Arena
Lead Agency: City of Melvindale

Recreation, Habitat Restoration, Environmental Education
& Rouge River National Automotive Heritage Site Project

Middle 1 & Lower 1 Subwatershed Frog & Toad Survey
Lead Agency: Friends of the Rouge


Septage/Waste Management


Septage Unloading Site
Lead Agency: Oakland County

Washtenaw County On-Site Sewage Disposal System (OSDS) Management Project
Lead Agency: Washtenaw County

Develop On-site Wastewater System Evaluation Training
Lead Agency: Michigan State University

Develop Evaluation & Maintenance Program for On-Site Sewage Disposal System (OSDS)
Lead Agency: Wayne County Environmental Health Dept.

Public Education Material for Homeowners
Lead Agency: Wayne County Environmental Health Dept.


Last Updated: 1/25/02

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The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project is funded, in part, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Grants #XP995743-01, -02, -03, -04, -05, -06, -08 and C-264000-01.