River Raisin upstream from the wastewater-treatment plant. Photo credit: Sara Swanson. by Sara Swanson On July 3, a power outage and failure of the back-up generator at the City of Manchester’s wastewater-treatment plant caused 10,000 gallons of untreated wastewater to overflow into the River Raisin over a two-hour period. Water samples from upstream and downstream of the area where the overflow occurred were taken and sent to the Washtenaw Coun…
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