Adams Trout Blog

The Boardman River Dams Committee (BRDC) has requested the City and County to authorize the issue of work orders to the engineering firm Environmental Consulting & Technology for the purpose of making recommendations for the fate of the four dams on the Boardman River in Grand Traverse County. This study will take approximately eighteen months to complete given adequate funding. The study will analyze the social, environmental, engineering, and economic benefits of removal or maintaining any or all of the dams. The Army Corp of Engineers are also conducting a study of the Boardman River Dams and both groups are encouraged to work together to avoid duplication of efforts and cost.

One of the latest developments that has come up is that the county is required to lower the Boardman pond by seventeen feet due to engineering concerns expressed by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and FERC. This request is driven by the present design of the dam in question as to safety concerns related to high volumes of rain and water runoff. - Jack Murray