Living with water and dealing with our changing climate in Metro Detroit (ft. Josh Elling, Jefferson East)

Daily Detroit

If you are a long time listeners of the show, you know that the far east side of Detroit by the riverfront is near and dear to my heart.

Recently, they've been dealing with flooding and other issues that are a harbinger of what's to come. See, our region has some major infrastructure issues to handle - and there's some big impacts on what will happen going forward if we don't address them now.

Josh Elling is the CEO of Jefferson East, a multi-service neighborhood service organization whose area contains much of Detroit's riverfront east of downtown and Jefferson Chalmers.

I enjoy having him on the show because we get into the details of what's happening on the ground. How we need to deal with water. Changes that may be needed in Detroit's building code to handle a wetter future. A needed seawall. How projects have been impacted. How this all works regionally because the water issue isn't just in one area, but something that impacts all of Metro Detroit. How, if we work together, there can be a lot of hope.

So sure, if you live in the immediate area you'll want to listen. But if you care about communities in southeast Michigan, you'll want to listen, too.

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