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2019 to permanently lower Wixom Lake behind the dam to run-of ... attempts to force fixes and upgrades at Edenville for years ahead of the flood. Neither Boyce nor previous owners generated ...
Wixom Lake was formed by the Edenville Dam, which failed May 19 amid heavy rains, draining the lake. Downriver, the Sanford Dam also failed, and similarly drained Sanford Lake. The flooding ...
Attorneys say newly unsealed court documents reveal Michigan state officials received repeated warnings about the Edenville ...
James Hall owns a cottage on Wixom Lake, damaged in Tuesday's flooding. While he criticized Boyce Hydro for its role in the Edenville dam breach, he leveled most of his ire at FERC. "FERC ...
EDENVILLE, MI — Owners of a collapsed dam that caused major flooding in Michigan say they were pressured by the state to maintain elevated water levels on Wixom Lake behind it, despite concerns ...
The power of water flowing after the Edenville Dam broke on Tuesday completely ... ripped apart where the river had run highest. Wixom Lake, a 2,600-acre reservoir created by the dam, was ...
"Now, it’s like a burned wasteland where the lake used to be." Coleman, who co-owns Wixom Waters park next to the Edenville Dam, shared videos of the historic flooding in Midland County earlier ...
Opening the Edenville gates in 2018 and 2019 to allow for run-of-river levels — levels that kept Wixom Lake lower than usual — was a way to avoid dam failure in a flood without making ...
“Just frustration,” said flood victim Robert Yahrmarkt ... which at the time operated the Edenville Dam, knew its east embankment might fail if Wixom Lake rose too high, which is exactly ...
Boyce Hydro Power’s history of violations lasted throughout the 14 years the company was authorized to run the nearly century-old Edenville ... reservoir known as Wixom Lake, a popular boating ...
What had once been a toast to summer along a canal leading into Wixom Lake was replaced by autumn ... But when the Edenville Dam failed last spring, causing the Sanford Dam downstream to breach ...
Nearly ten thousand residents living along the Tittabawassee River and connected lakes in Midland County were forced to evacuate as heavy rains caused Edenville Dam, which holds back Wixom Lake ...