The slide deck from our recent Community Meeting is now available below.

Video recording of the meeting is below.

WHMI has an article about how students are getting involved to help with Huron River flooding.

Township officials will discuss the August 2021 flood, response efforts, and their next steps to address flooding issues (e.g., consistent river access for weed harvesting). This will occur at the Hamburg Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd at 2:30pm. You can attend in person or watch on the livestream by clicking on “video” on this link: https://www.hamburg.mi.us/…/township_board_of_trustees.php

With the rain from Sunday and Monday (2.17 inches recorded on the north side of Ore Lake), the river is projected to crest at 6.9 feet on Friday. Yet, again, we are facing further flooding. Now is the time to begin picking items up off the floor and securing other items. If you still have your boat in a lake and river, remember that there is no wake when the river reaches 6.5 feet. If you have questions or need support during flooded times, you can reach out to Hamburg and Green Oak Township, as well as messaging us here or contacting us via our contact page. Stay safe!

We are working to submit grant applications to help folks get support for raising their homes above flood level. If you are affected by flooding and are interested in potentially getting matched funding for raising your home, please send us a message via our contact page for further information.

As we begin recovering from this current flood, we continue to take steps forward… In doing so, we are excited to announce that we are partnering with Innovation Academy in Howell. The high schoolers will be studying our surrounding watersheds and creating a land use study to document the changing development in the region. We are very excited for this partnership! And thanks to Deanna for the connection!

In exciting news, yesterday a group of us worked with Dr. Wendy Robertson, our partner hydrologist, to install gauges for monitoring water inputs into Ore Lake! We have been working to begin this data collection for the past 1.5 years and have finally reached our goal to gather flow and discharge data! Thank you to all involved and a particular shout out to Wendy for your help and guidance, community members who helped build and install the gauges, Claire Zarakas who connected our community with our partner hydrologists, and Diane Henry for helping get our organization up and running! And thank you to the Thriving Earth Exchange for providing the resources to help our community!

Be prepared, we are projected to get 2-4″ of rain in the next few days. As of right now, the projection is for major flooding with the river forecast to crest at 7.9 feet Sunday or Monday. Make sure you move items to higher ground and secure objects so they don’t float away. Also, if the river reaches flood stage of 6.5 feet (see website), then there is a no wake on the lakes and river: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=dtx…

We are excited to share that Saturday we met with Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin to discuss our concerns about regional flooding! It was a productive meeting with her and our local leaders discussing our next steps for monitoring water inputs into Ore Lake, as well as getting support for our FEMA BRIC/FMA application and addressing the NFIP lack of disclosures of flood claims. Thank you Rep. Slotkin for supporting and addressing our community concerns!

Thank you to all who attended Saturday’s Community Flooding Event. We had a great turnout – over 50 people attended! It was great to hear everyone’s concerns, questions, and thoughtful ideas for addressing our flooding issues. We will have a follow-up event in the coming weeks.

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