Handling High Waters: Your Guide to Rising Lake Levels

Host: Emily Kieliszewski, Member Programs Lead, Michigan Municipal League

 

Guests:

Ronda Wuycheck, Coastal Management Program Manager, Water Resources Division, Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

Krystle Walker, Emergency Management Specialist, US Army Corps of Engineers

Nick Bonstell, Director of Emergency Management, Ottawa County Sheriffs Office, Emergency Management Division 

 

2019 brought the highest recorded lake levels since 1986, resulting in devastating flooding, erosion and damage to Michigan’s coastal communities. Join us for a discussion on what funding, technical assistance and emergency resources are available to coastal municipalities. Learn the high water predictions that are ahead for 2020, and how you and your communities’ assets can best be prepared.