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MESICK — Hodenpyl Dam could have a new owner as Consumers Energy eyes selling it, and the 12 other hydroelectric plants it owns in Michigan, as it reckons with high

Coco Soodek represents the Lake Allegan Association, a group that advocates for landowners on the impoundment created by the Calkins Bridge Dam in the…

Consumers Energy is weighing what to do with old, hydropower dams that cost more to operate and maintain than the value of the energy they provide. But removing the dams has consequences for major rivers and local economies. 

Consumers Energy is weighing what to do with old, hydropower dams that cost more to operate and maintain than the value of the energy they provide. But removing the dams has consequences for major rivers and local economies. 

Consumers Energy is considering whether to keep its 13 hydropower dams on Michigan rivers.

The century-old dams are expensive to maintain, generate little energy and are generally harmful to rivers and native fish. But their reservoirs bring boaters, visitors and lake houses that help support small communities.

Webber Dam is located on the Grand River in Ionia County, while the Calkins Bridge Dam is located on the Kalamazoo River in Allegan.

369k cubic yards of sediment came through Morrow Dam, says river expert Updated Mar 09, 2021; Facebook Share KALAMAZOO, MI — The total shocked Stephen Hamilton. Hamilton, an aquatic ecology professor at Michigan State University, had seen the Kalamazoo River sediment deposits that developed after a hydroelectric dam operator unexpectedly drained its impoundment. He had seen the turbidity in the water, which was so dark with fine sediment particles last year that objects disappeared from view...

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