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Alliance of Downriver Watersheds
The communities and other stakeholders in the Ecorse Creek watershed have been working
together for several years to manage the area’s water resources on a watershed
basis and to comply with federal regulations regarding the discharge of storm water. A new
permanent watershed organization, consisting of the public agencies in the Ecorse
Creek watershed and the neighboring Combined Downriver and Lower Huron River watersheds,
has been proposed under the new Watershed Alliance legislation (Public Act 517 of the
Public Laws of 2004). This organization would provide services to its members and to
the existing Advisory Group for each watershed in order to facilitate implementation of
the management plans recently developed for each watershed and submitted to the Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality (see the Watershed Management section of this Web site
for more information about the Ecorse Creek Watershed Management Plan).
A subcommittee composed of members of the Inter-Municipality Committees for the
Ecorse Creek, Combined Downriver, and Lower Huron River watersheds drafted bylaws
to form a new watershed organization for the 3 downriver watersheds under the new statute.
These draft bylaws were subsequently reviewed and approved by the Inter-Municipality
Committee for each watershed and are now under review by the governing body of each
potential member. The following materials provide additional information about the
proposed Alliance of Downriver Watersheds:
- WORD version of Appendix D from the final draft Bylaws for ADW. This is an
example resolution for the use in preparing a similar resolution for the governing
body of each community/agency in the downriver area.
- 2 page summary of the proposed Bylaws for Alliance of Downriver Watersheds.
- Memo from K. Cave (Wayne County) outlining changes to bylaws document since
previous version (April 2006).
- Letter from P. McCauley (Sommers Schwartz) regarding the recommendation he will
be making to his clients on this matter.
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