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FLASH BULLETIN!
10/31/08( Halloween) we have an even scarier situation. On Oct 15 the state of Michigan Dept .of Environmental Quality (DEG) who had been evaluation the design submittal for approval for a low cost loan, We have just now found this out from by direct communication with the key project manager in Lansing.
He stated that the plan as presented was totally unworkable and since the state funding is very tight recommended that the funding request be put off until next year. He said that several alternative design, namely the STEP system or combination of step or grinder system would be significantly less costly as well as far less intrusive on the properties.
Yesterday we found out from the Supervisor that he intends to go forward in spite of the obvious problems and fund the project using a much higher rate bank loan. This with the knowledge that the system cannot be built as designed and has significant technical flaws. The people at Moore and Bruggink have been pushing hard for this approach to protect their proposed $250,000 final design fee.
This does not make sense! The bank loan is more costly, the present design will not work and is not cost effective (according to the experts in Lansing), and the DEQ must approve the final design before anything can be started . Also the $31,000 grant from the state that was used to buy the design proposal the second time will have to be paid back to Lansing if any other financing source is used!
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