Macomb and Oakland counties dispute over sewage discharge into Lake St. Clair, with accusations exchanges around water quality and infrastructure.

Oakland County officials pushed back against claims the county is polluting Lake St. Clair by discharging fully and partially treated raw sewage into the lake from its treatment facility Those are claims made by officials and residents in Macomb County.

Macomb County is accusing Oakland County of discharging sewage into a major stormwater canal leading into Lake St. Clair following wet weather.

For years, Macomb County drain chief Candice Miller has said Oakland County pollutes Lake St. Clair with sewage. Now it's her turn to get an earful.

Jim Nash said the George W. Kuhn Retention Treatment Basin is "a state-of-the-art facility." The basin occasionally discharges into the Red Run Drain.

After Macomb County's public works commissioner chastised it's neighboring county's systems and blamed them for releasing untreated water into its rivers, the water resources division fired back from one of Oakland County's facilities.