Detroit Water Customer Oakland County Attacks Debt Plan

Detroit’s debt-adjustment plan can’t be approved under bankruptcy rules, officials from adjacent Oakland County told the judge overseeing the city’s record $18 billion case.

For months, Oakland County and other suburban water users have been negotiating with Detroit’s emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, over his proposal to bring about $47 million into the city by creating a new agency that would run the city’s water and sewer system.