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Drum and bugle corps scheduled to perform are The Cadets of Erie plus Spirit of Atlanta, Seattle Cascades, Jersey Surf, Genesis and Pacific Crest. ....
2023 Lake Erie Fanfare coming Monday in Edinboro. What's ahead for 2024? yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A 'grave situation' awaits Michigan without dam safety fixes, report warns mlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Credit steve carmody / Michigan Radio It will be a few more days before a task force set up to study Michigan’s dam safety regulations will finish its final report. The delay is because of concerns about the “tone” of the document. The Dam Safety Task Force was created after last May’s failures of the Edenville and Sanford dams. The twin dam failures contributed to a 500-year flood event which caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. Rising floodwaters forced thousands in Midland and Gladwin counties to evacuate their homes. The task force has come up with a wide spectrum of recommendations for modifying and updating Michigan’s regulations for publicly and privately owned dams. The recommendations would expand the number of dams regulated by the state. ....
Aging hazard dams forced a reckoning in Michigan this year Updated Dec 30, 2020; Facebook Share LANSING, MI They say you shouldn’t let a crisis go to waste. Well, there’s been a few of those in 2020. In Michigan, it was also the year aging hazard dams forced a long-overdue reckoning among state regulators. This fall, a group of experts in river ecology, civil engineering, dam safety and other aspects of environmental and energy policy have taken the crisis maxim to heart as they flyspeck the regulatory structure around an overlooked and under-funded area of the state’s water infrastructure. The goal is to overhaul the state’s dam safety and regulatory protocols, and hopefully avoid another catastrophe like the one on May 18 in Edenville, when a decrepit hydroelectric dam collapsed and unleashed a 500-year flood that displaced 10,000 people during a pandemic and caused about $200 million worth of damage in three counties. ....