water infrastructure

More money is going to help fund a new lock in the St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced $478.9 million in federal money will come from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress in 2021.

The director of the state’s environment department faced tough questions Thursday about the drinking water crisis in Benton Harbor.

The state Senate Appropriations committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that would spend 2-and-a-half-billion-dollars on water infrastructure.