As reported in the Muskegon Chronicle, the cleanup and transformation of deep water port Muskegon Lake from industrial cesspool to a clean waterway had drawn praise from Michigan's port officials.
According to excerpts from the story:
Muskegon Lake is the largest deep-water port on the western coast of Michigan. Today the lake once likened by many to an industrial cesspool back in the 1960s and early '70s is being touted as a shining example of how a port can be transformed. The port on Muskegon Lake is now multipurpose. The deep-water access from Lake Michigan to Muskegon Lake allows for sailboat races, coal deliveries to the B.C. Cobb plant, charter fishing trips into the Big Lake and arrivals of the Lake Express ferry with passengers and vehicles arriving daily from Milwaukee.
Just a generation or two ago, Muskegon's port was mainly an industrial center with a paper mill, several foundries, an engine manufacturing plant and a coal-burning power plant. Back then, Muskegon Lake waters were in no condition to support a sport fishing industry. The shoreline was disfigured from decades of lumbering and heavy industrial use and certainly was no place for residential housing.
Today, all of that has changed.
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