A GoFundMe fundraising effort is underway for a resident-funded weed harvesting. The purpose of this 2025 Resident-Funded weed harvesting on the Huron River is to serve as a pilot program to determine the potential benefits for early seasonal harvesting for minimizing flooding. The intent is to harvest the flat area of the Huron River channel from the river bend at Hidden Lake to the Hamburg Road bridge (which includes in front of the Little Ore outlet). The goal is to harvest in June to maximize water flow and hopefully minimize the number of days that Ore Lake and Little Ore experience flooding this summer.
The resident-funded weed harvesting and removal will cost $10,000 total. To reach our goal, a suggested donation from each house is $50 per house. A donation of any amount will help to make this effort a success.
Hamburg Township is planning to harvest downstream of the Hamburg Road bridge in July, depending on the river level.

We hosted a community discussion about the potential Ore Lake Special Assessment District (SAD) on Thursday, April 3rd. Thank you to all who were able to attend.

Video recording of the meeting, and the slides presented are available below.

Our Fall meeting was held via Zoom on November 21st, 2024. Video recording, slide deck, and links to referenced documents are below.

Two articles about establishing lake levels were referenced in the meeting. They are here – Part 1 and Part 2. 

Hamburg Township Board of Trustees will be discussing “whether Township money can or should be spent on flood prevention or ameliorative activities” (see p. 83 of the Board packet for a memorandum by Hamburg Township Treasurer, Jason Negri) during Tuesday’s Board meeting. As this affects so many in our community, particularly for safety concerns and property damage/values, it is imperative that as many people as possible attend and speak at the meeting. It will be on Tuesday, November 19th at 7:00pm at the Hamburg Township Offices (10405 Merrill Road).

Link to memorandum

At the end of our August meeting, we mentioned that we are looking to gather information on homeowners’ flood-related damage costs to make an argument for the economic impact of the persistent, increasing floods. It is important for as many property owners as possible to share this information so we have an accurate representation of economic loss. We have created an anonymous survey to gather the flood-related damage costs to each property. The survey does not record your name or email address. (Please have only one homeowner from each property complete the survey.) Please use this link to complete this anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/zgk9Jbzh2z3fWhXV8 

A news crew from Channel 7 visited the Ore Lake area today. The report ran today on the 6 o’clock news and is available on their website.

Channel 2 also ran a story.

We have posted a few drone videos of the flooding around Ore Lake to a playlist on our YouTube channel.