Road commission officials hope to hire a contractor soon to restore the erosion protection, but Gutowski said repairs to the road likely won’t take place until spring.In Boyne City, public works department director Tim Faas said city officials are dealing with erosion in multiple areas.He said he was planning a meeting with officials from the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council for guidance on how to deal with erosion that has taken place at the shoreline on John Street.Faas said given the time needed to devise a solution, get the proper permits from state and federal officials, and find funding in the city’s budget, the work likely won’t take place until spring.The high lake levels prompted organizers of this summer’s Boyne Thunder powerboat event to forgo the traditional high-powered take-off from the Boyne City end of the lake, amid concerns that the boats’ wakes would cause shoreline damage.James Lake, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Transportation, said state highways around the north so far have been largely spared from lake flooding or erosion issues, with a few exceptions.He pointed, however, to one Northern Michigan highway that has experienced some notable erosion — M-185, which circles Mackinac Island, in some places just feet from Lake Huron.Lake noted that during some recent windy days, wave action has left sections the road littered with gravel and rocks, and in a least one location eroded a section of the road edge.The impact of the high Great Lakes’ levels goes beyond what can be seen at the lakeshores. Additionally, it was 15 inches above its level from one year ago and well above (long-term average) levels at about 30 inches above its average for the period of record,” the report reads.Officials noted that the season decline was likely aided by the fact that the region saw much less precipitation than normal in August — about 68 percent of the typical amount, according to the report.However, the seasonal decline doesn’t mean high water levels are on the way out.While U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are not expecting levels to break any records in the the coming months, levels are expected to remain well above average.“Levels are projected to remain 6 to 13 inches below the record high monthly mean water levels. Waves crash against a seawall that borders Boyne City’s Veterans Memorial Park in August.
Lakes Michigan and Huron fell just short of the records set in 1986.In their most recent monthly lake level and Great Lakes hydrology updates issued in early September, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said all the Great Lakes are currently in their typical seasonal decline. Malin Head datum is a mean sea level datum, Poolbeg datum is a low water datum. is the highest water level recorded on Lake Charlevoix.
City officials are keeping a close on on erosion that waves and high water levels may be causing at the park.The volleyball court area at the Young State Park beach was underwater for most of the summer because of high lake levels and a wetter-than-normal spring and early summer.Crews recently repaired this area of shoreline near the end of Bayfront Drive in Petoskey after high lake levels combined with wave action caused erosion.A large section of eroded shoreline at Bayfront Park is shown.Shoreline erosion at Bayfront park is seen in September.Waves from Little Traverse Bay wash up and under a portion of the pavement on Beach Drive east of Harbor Springs on Sept. 14.It was just a few years ago when many around Northern Michigan and the Great Lakes region had many concerns about near record low levels for the Great Lakes.A few years later, the region now faces the opposite issue, with Great Lakes water levels at or near record high levels.With the high water levels comes a whole new set of problems — which extend beyond docking concerns, although those exist as well.Several municipalities in the region have had to modify some docks in their marinas or boat launch facilities.
Lakes Michigan and Huron fell just short of the records set in 1986.In their most recent monthly lake level and Great Lakes hydrology updates issued in early September, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said all the Great Lakes are currently in their typical seasonal decline. Malin Head datum is a mean sea level datum, Poolbeg datum is a low water datum. is the highest water level recorded on Lake Charlevoix.
City officials are keeping a close on on erosion that waves and high water levels may be causing at the park.The volleyball court area at the Young State Park beach was underwater for most of the summer because of high lake levels and a wetter-than-normal spring and early summer.Crews recently repaired this area of shoreline near the end of Bayfront Drive in Petoskey after high lake levels combined with wave action caused erosion.A large section of eroded shoreline at Bayfront Park is shown.Shoreline erosion at Bayfront park is seen in September.Waves from Little Traverse Bay wash up and under a portion of the pavement on Beach Drive east of Harbor Springs on Sept. 14.It was just a few years ago when many around Northern Michigan and the Great Lakes region had many concerns about near record low levels for the Great Lakes.A few years later, the region now faces the opposite issue, with Great Lakes water levels at or near record high levels.With the high water levels comes a whole new set of problems — which extend beyond docking concerns, although those exist as well.Several municipalities in the region have had to modify some docks in their marinas or boat launch facilities.