Replumbing Washtenaw Heights

Stimulus funds flow in Pittsfield.

by James Leonard

posted 3/27/2010

Any way you lay it, 30,000 feet is a lot of pipe. In fact, it's 5.7 miles--exactly the distance around the subdivision bounded by Packard, Washtenaw, Carpenter, and Golfside. Called Washtenaw Heights by its developers, it's Pittsfield Township's oldest residential neighborhood--and nobody's touched its water pipes since they went in the ground back in 1960. "We've been getting a lot of water main breaks there lately," says Mike Luptowski, Pittsfield's utilities director. "I've been here six years, and it's gone from half a dozen to twenty a

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