Grosse Pointe Park could stop using Detroit water

Published June 24, 2014 12:14pm ET



GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. (AP) — Grosse Pointe Park has come up with a plan that could make it the next Michigan community to stop buying water from Detroit.

The suburb of about 12,000 residents has proposed building its own $15 million water filtration plant at a park along Lake St. Clair near the Detroit River, the Detroit Free Press reported (http://on.freep.com/1jKNZpF ). State approval would be needed along with a voter-approved bond sale to cover construction costs.

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