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Updated: Monday, January 30, 2012

As part of its extensive and ongoing pipeline integrity program, Enbridge is undertaking an expanded maintenance and rehabilitation effort along portions of its 30-inch diameter Line 6B pipeline that starts in Griffith, Ind. and crosses southeast Michigan.

As part of this program, Enbridge has developed the Line 6B Maintenance and Rehabilitation Project and plans to replace approximately 75-miles of its 30-inch diameter Line 6B pipeline. The 65 miles in Michigan, with replacement pipe to be either 30 or 36-inch diameter pipe in southwestern Michigan and 30-inch pipe in the eastern Michigan segment. Included in the 65 miles are three five-mile segments east of the Niles, Mendon and Marshall, Mich. stations (see map). They also plan to replace a 50-mile segment between their terminal near Stockbridge and Ortonville, Mich.

Completion of this project, scheduled for late 2012, should result in fewer integrity digs and repairs along the replacement segments in the future, resulting in fewer disturbances to landowners and local communities. For this project, they plan to remove the oil from the pipe segments being replaced and fill them with nitrogen before abandoning in place, as prescribed in regulations. In most cases, the new pipe segments will be installed adjacent to those segments being replaced.

Please call Enbridge to report any unusual activity in their pipeline right-of-way or any unauthorized entry into their facilities. And, in the unlikely event of a pipeline emergency, please call their emergency number at 800-858-5253 immediately.

Updated: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Invitation to Bid

Sealed bids will be received by the Board of County Road Commissioners of the County of Livingston, 3535 Grand Oaks Drive, Howell, Michigan 48843-8575 until 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at which time and place proposals will be publicly opened and read aloud for the following:

• Corrugated Steel Pipe
• Float Blades
• Carbide Tool Bits
• Natural Mineral Well Brine

Bid prices on the foregoing materials shall include cost of delivery to points designated by the Livingston County Road Commission. Specifications may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

All proposals must be submitted in sealed envelopes bearing the name of the bidder and a notation indicating the materials on which the bid is submitted.

The Board reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in bids, and to accept the bid, which is in the best interest of the County of Livingston.

Updated: Monday, November 7, 2011

H20 Heroes Give Us Ten Minutes

Take Our Online Survey

Go to www.hrwc.org/survey

Your participation is very important and will help us protect lakes, rivers, and streams in our community!

Complete our 10-minute survey for a chance to win one of ten $25 gift cards or a Flip video camera. The prize drawing will be held at the survey’s close in early February 2012.

Survey results will be used by the Huron River Watershed Council (HRWC) and communities in Washtenaw and Livingston Counties to evaluate our water pollution outreach and education efforts and will inform such projects as the Watershed Community Calendar.

The data will be compared to a similar regional survey that was mailed to homeowners in a seven county area in Southeastern Michigan back in 2004.

HRWC is hoping for responses from at least 400 residents of Washtenaw and Livingston Counties respectively, from people who live in rural areas and those in larger urban communities in the watershed.

For questions please contact Pam Labadie at HRWC, plabadie@hrwc.org or (734) 769-5123 x 602.

Updated: Friday, October 22, 2011

It's common practice as summer fades to fall and daylight savings time approaches for homeowners to change to batteries in their smoke detectors and the filters in their furnace. In the same manner the County Road Association, United Postal Service and your local Road Commissions are reminding homeowners to prepare their mailboxes for the winter.

Will your mailbox survive the upcoming winter season?

By taking a few precautions, you can help yourself out.

As the sports saying goes, "The best offense is a good defense."

To protect your specialty mailboxes against the forces of snow removal operations, replacing a decorative or oversized mailbox with an inexpensive standard mailbox is a good weather time practice.

Snow and ice coming off the plow at 35 MPH packs a much bigger punch than any snowball ever could!

Before the ground freezes is a good time to check your mailbox installation to be sure it can weather the upcoming winter season by answering the following questions.

• Is the wood board your mailbox is setting upon in good condition? Wood does rot over time and a deteriorated board is a major cause of your mailbox landing in your front yard from the snow coming off the plow.

• Are the nails to the board loose? If so, it can become a projectile.

• How about the wood post in the ground? Again, an old wood post may be rotten or that one small knot in it may become the place where the post "splits."

• A simple check: If you can physically juggle your mailbox installation and it "gives" a little, it will give out when the snow and ice removal season is here.

• If your mailbox has been in place for any length of time, weather can compromise a good installation.

• We do not recommend plastic mailboxes. Plastic becomes brittle and shatters very easily in cold weather conditions.

The Road Commission and the U.S. Postal Service remind residents that this is also a good time to replace or add reflective house numbers to allow postal workers and emergency responders to easily find your home.

The Road Commission does not replace mailboxes and posts if they are damaged from snow and/or ice coming off from the plow as a result of snow removal. It is up to the landowner. Be prepared and keep your mailing coming.

For more information about mailbox maintenance see our "Winter Maintenance" page.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Project: 

Eight Mile Road Paving Project (Dixboro to Pontiac Trail)

Project Start: 

August 2011 (Construction will stop for seasonal shutdown on or about November 15th and resume in April 2012)

Project End: 

June 2012

Project Map: 

Link to Map

The Road Commission for Oakland County (RCOC), in conjunction with the City of South Lyon and Lyon Township, will pave Eight Mile Road from Dixboro Road to Pontiac Trail on the Lyon Twp/Salem Twp border in Oakland County. Approximately 600 feet of this project, on the west end of Eight Mile, is in Livingston County.

During construction, this section of Eight Mile Road will be closed to through traffic, though traffic accessing homes or businesses within the project area will be allowed to use the road.

The road will be re-opened between November 2011 and April 2012.

The detour route for Eight Mile through traffic during the closure will be Pontiac Trail to Nine Mile to Dixboro Road and back to Eight Mile Road and vice versa.

The project will include concrete curbs and gutters where needed for drainage.

Simultaneously, a City of South Lyon bike path will be constructed between South Lyon's Volunteer Park and the Salem Township-South Lyon District Library. The bike path will be located on the north side of Eight Mile Road, from a quarter mile east of Dixboro Road to Pontiac Trail, and then head south along Pontiac Trail to library.

If you have questions about this construction project please contact the Oakland County Road Commission at (877) 858-4804.