Over the past six months, we inspected more than 100 vacant homes, schools, libraries churches, hospitals, factories and government buildings and found that roughly 20% still had running, leaking water. It’s a common problem throughout a city with more than 85,000 vacant buildings and not enough employees to handle the fallout of chronic abandonment. And in the basement of a small abandoned church, water flowed so furiously from broken pipes that neighbors could hear what sounded like a raging river. A long-abandoned factory floor on Detroit’s west side is 4 inches deep in gushing water. At the Belle Isle Nature Zoo, which closed 11 years ago, water still sprouts from a hole in the pavement like a fountain.
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