Connors Creek Pumping Station (Detroit, Michigan)

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DWSD is engaged in an ongoing program of improvements to the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the wastewater system designed to maximize the quality of service for the Department’s wholesale and retail customers, as well as ensure long-term compliance. DWSD has also developed and begun implementing a long-term plan to improve water quality in the Rouge and Detroit Rivers by controlling Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO). The $2 billion project is one of the largest sewer projects ever undertaken in Michigan.
DWSD currently operates and maintains seven CSO facilities. Four of these (7-Mile, Puritan-Fenkell, Hubbell-Southfield, and Conner Creek) are retention basins, which allow heavy storm flows to be temporarily stored. The basins are designed to release and direct stored contents to the Wastewater Treatment Plant after a storm event has subsided, and the plant can more readily accommodate the flow. In the event of prolonged storm events, basins are designed to release a portion of their contents into either the Rouge or Detroit River after being adequately screened and disinfected.