It’s not just the water coming through the sewer system that concerns Bruce Royce and his team at the Midland Water Reclamation Department.
Located in Central Michigan, Midland lies at the confluence of the Tittabawassee and Chippewa rivers, whose watersheds encompass a large share of the Lower Peninsula. The two meet downtown at a three-legged footbridge known as the Tridge.“We are at a natural choke point of a very large drainage basin,” Royce observes. As a result, the city is more than usually susceptible to flooding during major rain events. Those floods have affected the Midland Water Reclamation Facility several times
