$10 million restoration of Muskegon Lake's south shoreline to begin this month

A $10 million restoration project along the south shoreline of Muskegon Lake is set to begin later this month in an effort to improve the coastal habitat and remove the lake's status as a federal-designated "Area of Concern." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has listed the lake as among 14 sites on the Great Lakes that suffer from persistent pollution problems.

Efforts to improve the coastal habitat will kick off on Earth Day, April 22 with a ceremony at the Grand Truck dock site.

According to excerpts from the story:

The federal "stimulus" money is designed to remove fill materials and other shoreline "hardening" features left over from the city's lumber and heavy industrial eras. The shoreline has huge chunks of concrete in some areas and steel sheeting in others that have altered the habitat for natural wildlife and plant species.

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