Lansing — Eight years after the state started doling out money for infrastructure to serve a politically connected housing development in Washtenaw County, the costs for the stalled project are expected to overrun the $35 million in already allotted taxpayer money.

Salem Township will need $20 million to $30 million more than the $35 million already committed by the Michigan Legislature to secure wastewater treatment for the Salem Springs development, Supervisor Gary Whittaker said. That's regardless of whether the township builds a controversial wastewater treatment plant or routes a pipeline through Plymouth, Canton and Van Buren townships to connect to a Ypsilanti treatment plant.

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