Grand Haven’s Board of Light & Power has a clean-up problem.
Letters to and from Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) show that the BLP was denied closure of one of its impoundments and its request for a mixing zone approval was “premature.”
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Dylan, thank you for doing research and reporting on your discoveries. Investigative journalism in Grand Haven. Nice. I look forward the the follow up story.
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