It won't impact fishing, camping or hiking. Overall, Detroit Lake will just have less room for error — wet seasons will look fairly normal while drier years could see greater impact, especially in August and September. Under the lake: 'Ghost wagon' rises from Detroit Lake mud. How should we treat artifacts of 'Old Detroit? Previously, the big news at Detroit Dam was a downstream fish passage project and water temperature control tower.
That project is ongoing separately but is currently delayed while this more pressing issue is dealt with. The agency is holding a virtual meeting from p. March 22 on the WebEx platform. To listen over the phone, call and use this access code: Public comments can be emailed here: DetroitPoolRestrictions usace. Most were small and had limited impact, but some were catastrophic, including a dam break in Nebraska last year that killed a man when it washed away his house.
And homeowners often have no inkling of the threat. Wixom and Sanford lakes, which were created by the Edenville and Sanford dams in the s, have existed as long as anyone in the Midland area can remember. Daniel Lackey, 70, was just 5 when his father scraped together savings from his job at a General Motors plant in Flint to buy a small cottage with cement floors on Wixom Lake — a basic retreat that lacked indoor plumbing for years.
He spent his childhood summers fishing, playing badminton and jumping from the diving board that he and his brothers crafted at the end of their dock. He brought his wife, Kayann, there for the first time when she was 17 and he was home on leave from the U.
Air Force. Lackey and wife moved to the lake full time after he retired from General Motors and Kayann, now 67, retired from her work as a Montessori preschool director.
Their daughter, Sarah Schulz, built a cottage next door to her parents with her husband a few years ago. They decided to stay because they thought their cottages were high up enough to be safe.
As the water rose, the family gathered kayaks just in case. She posted an SOS on Facebook that helped the family get rescued by a man in a pontoon. The flag he brought home was so treasured, Lackey said, his voice cracking with grief, he only flew it on the Fourth of July. They have no kitchen, no shower and no electricity. They spent most of their savings renovating a house that is now in tatters. Most American dams were built in the 20th century to serve mills or factories that are long gone, Graber of American Rivers said.
Small dams in flat states like Michigan have thin margins at best, Graber said. Graber, whose organization works to remove dams, said restoring a river to its natural state can improve public safety and water quality, allowing fish to migrate freely. Lawmakers are also trying to prepare the state for a major earthquake. In the Oregon Legislature, House Bill mandates that contracts for public works must adhere to seismic safety standards and seismic rehabilitation standards in constructing or renovating public buildings or critical infrastructure in earthquake-prone areas.
A House committee has a work session scheduled for the bill on April 1. In , the U. Army Corps of Engineers completed a seismic hazard analysis for Detroit Dam, and found the risk to be higher than Corps officials previously thought. A breach would send a surge of water shooting down the Santiam Canyon, which was devastated by a wildfire last summer, and onto where it opens up on the eastern edge of the Willamette Valley.
Kelly House. Michigan Environment Watch. Share This: Share this article on Twitter. Share this article on Facebook. Share this article via email. Print this article. Related stories: Should taxpayers foot the bill for restoring the Midland dams? Among them: At least part of the embankment that dammed the Tobacco and Tittabawassee rivers to form Wixom Lake northwest of Midland appeared to be made of loose sand, indicating that shoddy construction when the dam was built in may have set it up for failure nearly a century later.
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