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December 10, 2020
A bill passed by the senate on Thursday and spearheaded by Michigan Senator Gary Peters is aimed at helping communities who have been hit hard by lakeshore erosion caused by record high water levels.
Sen. Peters says climate change is playing a huge part in these trends. “With climate change, we’re seeing the frequency of storms is increasing–the severity of storms is increasing,” he said. “You have high water so flooding–precipitation events are all going to increase.”
The STORM Act will allow communities affected by shoreline erosion and flooding to take out loans to help fix and strengthen the damaged areas. “Local communities can then draw on that money to put a project in place and then they’ll pay it back over a long period of time, but it’ll be at a very low interest rate,” said Sen. Peters “These are investments that pay big time, because it’s a whole lot cheaper to fix infrastructure and harden infrastructure than