Michigan Environmental Cleanup Uses New Technology, Looking for Partners

For years I heard at Cronicle that Muskegon and other Michigan industrial cities like Flint were cleaning up longstanding industrial pollution, often using new technology like AI to predict where Flint's water pipes needed replacing or using improvements on digital environmental sampling tech to test progress on superfund sites or monitor and address algae blooms from agricultural runoff.

I'm very happy to report that this environmental cleanup finally seems to be picking up, just in time for Michigan to be ranked as one of the top states for business and a new climate refugee haven. Let's take a look at a few projects going on in Great Lakes cities related to using new technology to clean up the mess old businesses made before people knew better. If you have another update to add, put it in the comments or on social media and we'll cover that next.

Michigan Environmental Cleanup Projects Using New Tech

Muskegon Lake cleanup and redevelopment

Flint water crisis pipe replacement

Oscoda PFAS water poisoning cleanup progress

Detroit redevelopment affordable housing project

Detroit Ford New Tech Campus opens

Houghton Hancock mining site cleanup looking for partners

Torch lake mining waste cleanup

Ann Arbor / Huron River dioxane plume filtration

All of these projects are putting new filtration, environmental sampling, AI or other innovative technologies. If you would like to get involved, please reach out to partner with the organizations listed in the links.