CARPENTER STREET

EPA crews clean up mercury spill inside Northville home; officials say no neighborhood threat

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Environmental Protection Agency crews are on scene at a home on Carpenter Street in Northville, cleaning up after a mercury spill from a grandfather clock’s pendulum was reported last Wednesday.

City of Detroit helping 80-year-old woman who had raw sewage in her basement, family says

Read full article: City of Detroit helping 80-year-old woman who had raw sewage in her basement, family says

It’s been a roller coaster for Donna Marks, Damita Pitman and their 80-year-old aunt, Rosetta.

Family says elderly woman’s basement flooded with raw sewage in Detroit

Read full article: Family says elderly woman’s basement flooded with raw sewage in Detroit

Since March, Damita Pitman and her elderly aunt Rosetta have been dealing with flood waters coming into their Carpenter Street home in Detroit. But since the recent major rainfall, Pitman said they have had at least a foot of raw sewage in the basement.