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Gretchen Whitmer plans to ask for a federal disaster declaration for parts of Michigan hard hit by flooding last month. Fresh all-terrain vehicle and bird tracks mark the exposed lake bottom. Whose responsibility it may be, if anyone’s, to rebuild the dam and thereby refill Wixom Lake remains unclear. The images show how the Curtis Road bridge just south of the Edenville Dam was virtually scraped away, as was the M-30 bridge that ran north-south between the Edenville Dam and the Tobacco River to the west.

Frank Wixom, an entrepreneur who before entering the dam business created a rural Michigan circus act called the Augusta Mimes Minstrels, built the Edenville Dam in 1924 to harness hydroelectricity, the Midland Daily News reported. Boyce says it asked EGLE for permission to lower Wixom Lake last fall “due to concern for the safety of its operators and the downstream community.” EGLE and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources denied the request. The task force planned to ask a judge to set legal minimum lake levels once the sale went through. The camera turns at the point where the dam broke to show what once was Wixom Lake. A “tiny, matchbox” lakefront home, at about 500 square feet, could sell for $200,000 prior to the disaster, Huckins said. To the right (north) of the dam is Wixom Lake, formed by the damming of the Tittabawassee River. When the Edenville Dam failed on May 19, water rushed through the breach, draining much of Wixom Lake.

The water it will get you if you don’t be careful.”. Failed dam owner fought with state over Wixom Lake levels before flood. You now obviously know I’m old not up with technology :). Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. A new report confirms that the Edenville Dam didn’t meet state standards before it failed in May. A muddy mess with boats resting on the ground was all that remained. Boyce sued the state on April 29 in Grand Rapids federal court, arguing the state lacks scientific validation for its endangered species concerns and should allow the drawdowns. “Folks that are selling don’t know what to do,” Huckins said. Wixom Lake, before and after the dam broke. She plans to stay with her children while she decides how to proceed. Boyce claims it raised the lake this spring “under pressure" from the shoreline residents and state regulators. “The worst case scenario could be bankruptcies of magnitudes that we haven’t seen before.”. “I think I sold the highest price home on Wixom for $735,000 ... in August of last year," she said, recalling the high-fives.

Now, Wixom Lake looks like a giant beach with a small river running through it.

“I can’t imagine this town without this lake,” said Huckins, who lives on the lake, owns several investment properties and is a real estate agent. It was a big wet friend residents and vacationers welcomed home every spring and said farewell to each Labor Day.

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