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Board hears multi-county plan to update 1970s lake-level orders for Elk River Chain of Lakes
Summary
Antrim Countyofficials asked Grand Traverse County to join a multijurisdictional effort to update a 1970s court order under Michigan's Part 307 (Inland Lake Level Act) for the Elk Rapids spillway; the board directed legal counsel to study options for revising orders, updating special-assessment districts and the delegated-authority process.
Leslie Myers, Antrim County's drain commissioner and operator of dams, and attorney Stacy Hisung briefed the Grand Traverse County Board on the Elk River Chain of Lakes and the need to update a lake-level court order created in the 1970s.
Myers described recent extreme weather that raised water levels and the county's responsibility after inheriting the Bel Air and Elk Rapids structures. She told the board Antrim had authority to spend up to $125,000 initially on engineers and attorneys and had already secured a $500,000 grant for a Bel Air engineering study. “I…
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