Michigan Dams Still Need Fixing a Year After Failure
A year later, residents are looking at $215 million price to restore the emptied lakes with the earliest dams of four area dams completed by 2024 and the latest by 2026. Residents will be assessed to pay for the repairs.
May 19, 2021 •
(TNS) - While the reasons for the Edenville Dam s failure a year ago Wednesday are clear a poorly maintained dam unable to keep back historic rainfall holding those responsible accountable and fixing the policy failures that allowed the structure to skirt safety standards for years have been less straight forward.
After Edenville Dam gave way on May 19, 2020 , and overwhelmed the downstream Sanford Dam pushing about 10,000 Midland -area residents to evacuate government documents revealed years of non-compliance with state and federal standards, a fumbled hand-off of oversight between the feds and state, and an underfunded dam safety effort ill-equipped to hold the dam owner to task.
Two Michigan Trumpsters Charged With Threatening Elected Officials
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
In Michigan â which has seen more than its share of political extremism in recent months â state Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced criminal charges against two men accused of threatening officials on Tuesday.
The men are 62-year-old Daniel Thompson, who is from Clare County, Michigan, and 43-year-old Douglas, Georgia resident Clinton Stewart.
Thompson, Nessel s office alleges, made threats against Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Elisse Slotkin, both Democrats. Those threats, according to Nessel, include threats against Stabenow in a message left on Jan. 5 and threatening remarks during a Jan. 19 conversation with one of Slotkin s employees. In addition, Nessel s office alleges that Thompson made a threatening phone call to Slotkin on April 30, 2020.
A Michigan man alleged contacted Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) to complain that he was "angry about the results of the November election, that he joined a Michigan militia and that there would be
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