Dam Repairs

Five years after the Edenville Dam failure, around 60 dams in Michigan have received grants for repairs, but the state program, that oversees these projects, is running out of funds.

Five years after historic rainfall destroyed the Forest Lake spillway, the community is on the verge of getting their lake back after cobbling together a series of grants.

Gladwin County homeowner Jim Hall says it took 8.5 hours for the canals around Wixom Lake to drain after the Edenville Dam failed in 2020. Officials estimate it could take two to seven years for all the water to return.

A dam in northern Michigan will be rebuilt after the state and public spent more than two years scraping together money to fund the $1.7 million renovation.

A federal $130 million loan to restore four dams in Midland and Gladwin counties has been denied.

A reservoir in a northern Michigan state forest will soon be drained to restore a beloved dam.

The group Save Cornwall is nearing its fundraising goal to preserve a coveted dam in northern Michigan, with the help of a quarter-million state grant.

The future of a beloved dam in Cheboygan County looks a little more certain, thanks to new state funding. The public is raising $200,000 to cover the balance and rebuild the "high hazard" dam.

The operator of the Morrow Dam near Comstock will lower the Kalamazoo River Monday as the company begins long-awaited repairs on the dam.Eagle Creek…