Michigan Governor Makes Disaster Declaration Due To Sinkhole

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency Friday for Macomb County due to last month’s collapse of a massive sewage line that has caused a football field-sized sinkhole in one of its communities. The disaster declaration makes state resources available to the county and communities affected by the sewer collapse. It also raises the possibility that state, and possibly federal funds, could be secured to pay for some of the work and costs. The sewer collapse was discovered Christmas Eve after a family in Fraser, north of Detroit, awoke to find their home sinking. That house and two others have been condemned.