Recent heavy rainfall not likely to affect lake levels
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BY STEPHEN KLOOSTERMAN | Source: Grand Haven Tribune
HOLLAND — Recent rains are only a drop in the bucket as far as raising Lake Michigan’s water level, area officials say.
In fact, recent storms could make some waterways even less navigable by commercial and recreational vessels due to shoaling.
Tom O’Bryan, a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Grand Haven Office, said he was worried that mud and silt would be washed into the Lake Macatawa channel so that it would have to be dredged.
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