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Dredging on deck for Kalamazoo River oxbow filled with dam sludge Updated Feb 26, 2021; Facebook Share COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI — A hydropower company will begin dredging impoundment sludge from a Kalamazoo River side channel on Monday and says it’s planning to expand efforts to remove excessive sediment from a reservoir drawdown to other areas of the river. Eagle Creek Renewable Energy says it will dredge a small oxbow section of river next to Comstock Township’s Wenke Park starting March 1. The side channel has been filled-in with sediment from Morrow Lake that was allowed to wash downr...

The company that operates Morrow Dam says it’s almost ready to dredge a small amount of sediment from the Kalamazoo River. But its overall timetable for

Authorities worry excessive sediment from Morrow Dam may heighten spring flood risk in Kalamazoo.

Eagle Creek Renewable Energy will begin dredging reservoir mud in Comstock Township.

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 infras...