Latest News
New NOAA Designation... Muskegon Lake Habitat Focus Area
Muskegon Lake has recently been designated by NOAA as one of only nine Habitat Focus Areas in the country!
Check out the new Web site dedicated to the Muskegon Lake Habitat Focus Area.
Find out what is being worked on, goals accomplished and future work to help better our community & economy.
Lake Michigan Lakewide Action & Management Plan
The Lake Michigan Basin is home to the world's fifth largest lake and contains the world's largest collection of freshwater sand dunes. It also hosts many wetlands, prairies, forests, and savannas that provide essential habitat to a diverse ecosystem of plant and animal species. The Lake Michigan coastline contains 25 harbors and hundreds of marinas, and serves as a key North American migratory bird flyway.
Source Water Intake Protection Plan
The public is invited to give feedback on the draft, Source Water Intake Protection Plan for the City of Muskegon public water supply. The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 19, 6:00 p.m. at Muskegon City Hall in the council chamber room. Officials from the City of Muskegon and Tetra Tech will present information prior to a question and answer session.
Muskegon Lake Resiliency Plan
The Muskegon Lake Resiliency Plan is Complete and Ready for Implementation!
This subarea plan was developed to guide local governments in the adoption and implementation of climate adaptation and resiliency strategies along the Muskegon Lake shoreline. The plan outlines strategies and principles to be incorporated into future shoreline development and restoration work. While it is a stand-alone plan, it can be incorporated into future municipal master plan updates and broader plans, such as the Muskegon Lake Vision 2020 plan.
Each community that is included in this plan will find resiliency strategies and implementation items that will promote resiliency in the face of climate change for the protection of their local and regional natural and constructed resources. Some tasks require incorporation into grant funding cycles, capital improvement plans, zoning ordinance and other local regulations in a community. Others are behaviors that will benefit the Lake Muskegon watershed into the future.
Good News!
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality completed the first phase of the remedial investigation of the historic, Fenner’s Ditch oil seep on November 10, 2016.
Fenner’s Ditch is an inlet of Bear Lake. The oil seep has presented a water quality, aesthetic and socio-economic problem for decades.
Soil, groundwater and oil samples are currently being analyzed. Next steps will be additional investigation or planning the remedy.
The MDEQ will keep the MLWP posted and we will let you know when the results of the investigation are available.
