It’s been a year since the attempt to create a statewide sanitary code failed in the Michigan Legislature, but the idea is not dead. It can happen under the right circumstances, says one observer of the state’s wastewater struggles. Michigan is the only state without a statewide code.
In early November, a symposium in Traverse City — in the northwestern part of the state’s Lower Peninsula — assembled people to talk about the issue. Also in November, a member of the Michigan Environmental Council, a coalition of groups interested in public policy, called for better rules for onsite systems and system
