Health alert issued after splash pad sewer backup in Traverse City

Associated Press Comments Traverse City — Officials in Michigan’s northwestern Lower Peninsula issued a health alert after a sewer backup fouled Traverse City’s new $360,000 splash pad. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports city officials discovered Sunday morning that sewage backed up into the Clinch Park splash pad’s reservoir as five or six children played in and around a waterscape feature that opened last week. Officials issued a warning for anyone who used the splash pad Saturday or Sunday. The newspaper says the backup resulted from a failed pump that tripped a circuit breaker at a pump station, and that also knocked out a pump failure alarm. A city employee Sunday morning saw sewage...