Michigan Lawmakers Propose $500M to Repair Dams After Breach By David Eggert | May 21, 2021
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan lawmakers on Wednesday proposed spending $500 million to repair aging dams a year after a hydroelectric dam failed to hold back floodwaters in the Midland area, causing more than $250 million in damage, draining lakes and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes.
Pending legislation would create four new funds dedicated to dams. The money would help cover repairs related to the disaster, upgrade high-risk dams elsewhere, fund responses to future disasters and draw federal match funding to rehabilitate or remove dams.
Policy bills would add requirements for dam owners, including that they can financially handle potential problems and that they keep operation, monitoring and safety records. Higher-risk dams would be inspected more frequently than lower-risk structures.
After Breaches, Michigan Lawmakers Propose $500M to Repair Dams
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1 year later: Mid-Michigan flood victims recall challenges, face new frustration
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MIDLAND COUNTY, Mich. – It was one year ago that the Edenville and Sanford dams gave way, leading to devastating floods in Mid-Michigan.
Much of the mess has been cleaned up, but residents are still feeling the impact from the flooding especially in the town of Sanford.
Residents that once had lakefront homes and now have no lake are being asked to pay a tax to fix the dams and refill the lakes.
Kathy Parsch lost her home in the flooding. She was the very last person to make it out of the village of Sanford.
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.
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