Republished with permission from Detroit Urbanism. The City of Highland Park once operated its own independent municipal water supply, from June 1915 through December 2012. Toward the end of that period, while the city was under emergency state financial oversight, inspections had found that the facility had suffered from years of deferred maintenance and was therefore “temporarily” shut […]
Author Archives: Paul Sewick
Paul Sewick is a former bookkeeper and part-time Lyft driver who is passionate about researching the historical development of metropolitan Detroit. He publishes the website Detroit Urbanism.