![]() ![]() Because the sewer runs bellow both Michigan Avenue and US23, it has to dip down very deep into the ground, meaning that if that section should ever break, it would be a giant, expensive mess, simply because it is under a busy freeway and it is so hard to get to. The problem with it is not just that it is aging and eroding, but also where it is located. “When he said $30 million, I practically fell out of my chair,” Trustee Edwards-Brown told the Sun Times News in an interview after the meeting. Earlier this year, Pittsfield Township’s Director of Utilities and Municipal Services Craig Lyons came to the Board of Trustees with a $30 million proposal to improve Pittsfield Township’s sewer system and remove a major vulnerability with the main sewage flow route. Michigan Avenue is about to see a bunch of changes to it not only to fix the surface and improve traffic flow, but also to avoid a potentially disastrous problem involving the sewer running bellow both it and US23. Over a hundred million dollars worth of infrastructure improvements are in the works in Pittsfield Township.
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