Where it floods, and where the money is going.
Every one of the 14,115 times a Detroiter asked the City to investigate water in their basement since 2023, and the 138 alleys in the first round of contracts under the $184M Alley Sewer Repair Program.
1.0%
of basement-flooding reports are within 200 m of a contracted alley
2.5×
fewer flooding reports around the chosen alleys than around earlier alley projects
36%
of reports are outside every neighborhood the $30,000 repair program serves
Cave-ins are a street-surface failure the City sees in its own maintenance records. Water in a basement is a 311 request from a household. The first round of contracts tracks the first and not the second. How this was worked out, and what it does not prove.
What about one address?
Six segments, who owns each, and who might pay.
Three real addresses, three different answers