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Great Lakes Water Authority asks Legislature for police powers to protect regional water system
Summary
Representatives and officials from the Great Lakes Water Authority testified on a package of four bills — House Bills 4352, 4353, 4354 and 4355 — that would grant the authority law-enforcement powers to protect its drinking-water and wastewater systems.
Representatives and officials from the Great Lakes Water Authority testified on a package of four bills — House Bills 4352, 4353, 4354 and 4355 — that would grant the authority law-enforcement powers to protect its drinking-water and wastewater systems.
Representative Carter introduced the witnesses and the bills before the House Rules Committee. William Wolfson, deputy chief executive officer of the Great Lakes Water Authority, said the authority “grew out of the city of Detroit bankruptcy,” that its assets are owned by the city of Detroit and leased to the authority in perpetuity, and that the requested powers would restore policing functions the system previously had.
The authority’s witnesses described the scale and risk to the system. Wolfson said the…
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