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Water levels on the lake are 3 feet higher than the long-term average for October. “Throughout my life, I’ve seen a lot of high-water cycles,” he said. Things quieted down in the ’90s and 2000s and through the low water years of the 2010s. Immediately to the north of Gancer’s property, another house appears to partially hang from the edge of the bluff. Gezon said his team is also working with that homeowner, but added that if the earth beneath that house shifts before true winter hits and the ground freezes, it could fall too. Bluff erosion along the Caledonia shoreline can be seen on Feb. 3, 2020, from the cockpit of local certified financial planner Michael Haubrich's light-sport airplane.
While workers prepare for demolition, the lake keeps smashing against the shore below. A bulldozer places rocks along the shoreline in an attempt to stop significant Lake Michigan erosion threatening properties near Maranatha Drive in Norton Shores, Michigan, on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. The disappearing property and houses on the verge of falling into the lake have not gone unnoticed by village/town officials.
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The question to use public funds to tear the home down was put before the Park Township Board of Trustees at an emergency meeting Thursday, according to WOOD TV8. Emergency management officials were surprised the Lakeshore Drive home made it through Thursday evening, Nov. 21, when wind gusts reached peak speeds of 44 mph in Holland. “We’re gonna tear it down today so it doesn’t fall in tonight,” said Carl Perrin, owner of Middleville construction firm Perrin Marine. "The lake has taken 70-pound anchors — ripped them right out of the shoreline. It's broken chains. It's broken ropes," demolition contractor Matt Lucansky told WITI. The Oct. 16 storm ate away up to 30 feet of dune along parts of the shore, the NWS said.
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Montague, Michigan — Three of the five Great Lakes — Michigan, Huron and Superior — broke all January records for water levels, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. A warm winter led to more storm runoff and now people with beachfront property are locked in a battle to save their homes. Three of the five Great Lakes broke all January records for water levels.
It’s a fact that has dominated the headlines recently – including stories of people’s houses falling into the Great Lakes. But for those living in landlocked areas of the state, you might not realize that those coastal problems affect you too. Regardless, Bonstell emphasized homeowners are responsible for ensuring their homes don’t fall in and are ultimately on the hook for demolition and cleanup costs.
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"We’re gonna tear it down today so it doesn’t fall in tonight,” a construction official said. “It’s been a problem that’s been building and it doesn’t look like it’s going to abate any time soon,” said Assendelft, the EGLE rep. Lake levels across the Great Lakes reached record or near-record heights in 2019, and the U.S.
Much like the federal government, the village has the ability to fund a solution that protects public property, like streets, the public right of way, or utility infrastructure. Village leaders in Mount Pleasant have decided they can no longer wait for the possibility of federal money to help combat bluff erosion in the neighborhood around Lake Park. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. “When you think about wastewater treatment plants, and when you think about drinking water intakes, those are all located along the shoreline, or some body of water, but many are along the shoreline,” Gardner said.
Racine County previously donated concrete for homeowners hoping to protect the bluff from further erosion. That funding could only be used to protect public property/services, not homes or private buildings. The Village of Mount Pleasant continues to mull over how to deal with bluff erosion impacting homes in its Lake Park neighborhood. A desperate effort by homeowners is now underway to move their houses away from the approaching cliffs or build stone barriers to retain the shifting sands below. "Nobody has seen how quick and how much property has been lost in such a short amount of time with this type of erosion," he said. Then there’s the infrastructure that’s located along the state’s shoreline, including infrastructure that affects the state’s drinking water.
But he can’t force action; his job is to be on the scene after an emergency has already occurred. The state is on track to receive nearly triple the requests for permits to combat the effects of erosion -- an estimated 1, this year than two years ago. Caledonia is continuing to move to fill empty land with new high-end housing along and near the lakefront. RACINE COUNTY — When Stan Olszewski bought his lakefront property in Mount Pleasant in 2012, the lake was the lowest it had been in years. Noting how the waves of Lake Michigan will never stop, “the instability of the bluff is something you can’t predict,” Vetter said.
As Lake Michigan water levels remain at a near-record high, more and more shoreline is being eaten away every day. This house in Park Township, Michigan, is in danger of falling off the cliff. "To aid in landowner’s abilities to protect their properties, the Department has developed a streamlined process intended for emergency erosion control along coastal shorelines," Szabelski said. Permits, finances, and the capricious weather of a West Michigan winter all contribute to a challenging landscape for homeowners seeking to forestall the effects of erosion on their lakeside properties.
The project is estimated to cost $1.7 million and could begin in 2022. A home at 7009 Novak Road, Caledonia, is threatened by lakefront erosion, but the property sold late last month. The five-lot property anchored by 7009 Novak Road sold for a little more than $250,000, according to county records, almost $200,000 less than the online listed asking price.
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – A week after a family cottage fell off an eroded bluff on the shores of Lake Michigan, experts are warning other homeowners across the lakeshore to act now to prevent a similar fate. Moving forward, the City of Racine not only wants to fix the damage, but wants to do so in a way that lessens the potential destruction of future storms amid rising waters of Lake Michigan. Weather officials say Lake Michigan and Huron water levels might reach record highs that year. The National Weather Service has said the shoreline erosion is the worst it has seen since 1986.
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