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The Tittabawassee River ripped through the dam last May after heavy rains and had been cutting a new course since then. Three other dams on the river were damaged in the flooding, and the water in the four lakes they had been holding back surged downstream, flooding neighborhoods and businesses.
The Tittabawassee River is back to its normal path past one mid-Michigan community. The river ripped through a dam last year and had been cutting a new course since.
Credit Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio An attorney at a Detroit-area law firm is looking at options to reduce the amount of money people have to pay to rebuild dams that were damaged during flooding last year, but some local leaders fear the effort could prevent the dams from ever being restored. The special assessment district that funds the four dams along the Tittabawassee and Tobacco Rivers was set up in 2019 -- before the floods that damaged the dams and emptied the lakes they held back. Now, people who live in the district are expected to pay not just to maintain the dams, but to rebuil...
Debris cleanup on Rail Trail in Sanford to start this month, followed by repairs Closed section of Rail Trail expected to reopen before end of 2021 Midland Daily News FacebookTwitterEmail Renee Suderman of Auburn, right, carries a piece of debris through a field where homes once stood, followed by her daughters, Adelyn, 10, Jaclyn, 11, and her husband Phil, as the family volunteers Aug. 28, 2020 to help clear the area south of the Rail Trail in Sanford.(Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net) Debris cleanup on a stretch of the Pere Marquette Rail Trail in Sanford will begin some time this month, Midland...
In an order dated May 20, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, or the Commission) terminated the hydropower licenses for three projects...