Aging state parks look to stimulus money for help
From the Associated Press:
Michigan’s state parks have more than $200 million worth of failing water and sewer systems, dilapidated buildings and deteriorating roads and bridges.
But don’t expect a lot of those repairs to be paid for with federal stimulus money. Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion federal stimulus package into law, it’s evident few of those projects will get done.
Instead, the beleaguered state Department of Natural Resources again will postpone most of the projects and focus on a few must-do repairs, such as fixing a bridge at the heavily used Warren Dunes State Park so visitors don’t have to park near the park entrance and walk nearly a mile to the beach.
“We were hoping to get some federal stimulus money, because that’s a shovel-ready project. But it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen,” Ron Olson, DNR chief of parks and recreation, told The Associated Press.
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