Longtime Harsens islander follows lake’s ups and downs
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By BOB GROSS | Source: Port Huron Times Herald
HARSENS ISLAND — Larry Havens has a homemade chart documenting the ups and downs of Lake St. Clair since 1935, spread out on an old metal bench at Delta Hardware on Harsens Island.
He traces the lake’s swings with a finger work-roughened from a lifetime of driving sheet piling and building docks and seawalls.
“They used to say there was a seven-year cycle, but that’s not true at all,” said Havens, a longtime Harsens Island resident and a retired marine contractor.
“Bottom line is precipitation.”
The story of 70-plus years of water level changes at the Port Huron Times Herald >>
