Business View Magazine | May 2020

92 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2020 canoe use. Both the Battle Creek River and the Kalamazoo River go through the downtown area. Our part of those river sections aren’t very deep, not great for motorboats, instead they attract canoers and kayakers, so the new plan will have updated focus areas and some programming. That piggybacks onto the Environmental Sustainability Plan, which does have a chapter about transportation.” On the infrastructure front, Battle Creek has a myriad of projects, either completed or on the go, throughout its municipal divisions. These include a secondary improvement project that put in high-efficiency blowers and has significantly reduced energy consumption at the wastewater treatment plant; a large fleet of passenger trucks and three buses that run off propane; Congestion Mitigation Air Quality grants to fund a dozen signal optimizations in the downtown area; installation of high- efficiency motors at the water treatment facility pumping station; and adoption of stormwater City Engineer/Assistant Director of Public Works, Carl Fedders