The other thing that is notable is what else was found to be blocking the intake: a baseball and a sizable piece of metal. Many older collection systems are combination stormwater and wastewater systems, so that under heavy rain events, whatever has washed off the streets blends with what is coming from the "sanitary sewer" and all of it lands on the screens.
Sensationalism doesn't go very far with trained professionals, unless they are trying to curry favor to support funding for necessary upgrades.
Those divers, in that case, become poster children to advance a cause that elected officials are ignoring.
Hello, Detroit, are you paying attention?
Even with the two situations are polar opposite, one being treated drinking water and the other being wastewater treatment, the root causes are identical.
