DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – When the city of Detroit experiences flooding, it’s a problem that will attempt to be solved at the expense of all taxpayers.

Detroit made the news again on Monday after severe weather caused flooding.

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In January, the city of Detroit received $346.8 million in federal disaster recovery funds “to help the city become more resilient to floods and basement backups.”

The money came from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and was tied to flooding in August 2023. It’s yet to be determined if the city will try to tap more federal funds to deal with the most recent flooding issues.

City officials stated large rainfalls exceed the design capacity of the public regional sewer system; that led to flooding on streets, highways, and residential and commercial basements.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said in January the city had a “huge unmet need of failing decades-old alley sewer lines in the city that are a major cause of basement backups.”

He added, “We have 1,800 miles of old alley sewer lines built 70-90 years ago for a city of 1.8 million residents,” Duggan said in the January press release. “With 700,000 residents today, there is no way we’d be able to address a problem of this magnitude without significant federal support. We now have the resources we need to make a significant impact on this problem.”