Check out the story tonight on Channel 4 WDIV Detroit news at 5pm or 6pm about the National Flood Insurance Policy and our efforts to work with legislators to address the issues…
Join us at our Community Flood Meeting tomorrow morning at 10am to learn more about this and other work we are doing!
Video is now available on their web site.
We are holding a community meeting to discuss our recent and on-going flooding issues, and to update everyone on our progress so far.
When: August 28 th , 2021 @ 10:00 AM
Where: Patio at Hamburg Township Senior Center
10407 Merrill Road, behind the Senior Center
Please wear a mask to protect our neighbors
The Huron River / Ore Lake flooding has been receiving some coverage in the local media.
WDIV Channel 4 from Detroit has run a couple of stories on the flooding in our area.
WHMI radio has been covering the flooding –
Let us know of any other coverage you may find.
A serious flooding condition continues along the Huron River and Ore Lake. According to the USGS gauge on the Huron River at the Hamburg Road bridge, the river crested on Sunday, August 16th at a height 8.05 feet, which is a foot and a half above flood stage at 6.5 feet. Current projection has the level slowly falling and remaining above flood stage for at least a week.
Photos of flooding conditions provided by our neighbors are available on our Gallery page.
All sessions will be recorded and posted to FEMA’s YouTube channel. The link to recordings will be provided when available.
Continue reading “Upcoming Webinars From FEMA”Check out this picture of Ore Lake from the 1930’s. Generously provided by Deanna. This winter scene looks like it is from the south end of Little Ore lake. Is that a plowed field in the foreground, across the road from the cottages?
Thanks to all who joined our Community-Wide Discussion last week! We had a great conversation about our concerns and future goals for addressing regional flooding. We even gathered volunteers for current and future project! If you’d like to keep up-to-date and join our listserv go to: https://groups.google.com/…/ResidentsWorkingAgainstHuro….
Recently we had the chance to meet with our two hydrologists (Wendy Robertson and Scott Dierks), along with other local leaders and stakeholders to explore our region and the community flooding concerns. It was a great first meeting face-to-face (with masks and distancing) and we are looking forward to beginning data collection and monitoring along Ore Lake and upstream of Ore Lake in the coming weeks. More information to come, along with future opportunities to get involved!
As promised (though a little late), we are excited to share that we will be working with two hydrologists, Dr. Wendy Robertson and Mr. Scott Dierks, on our Thriving Earth Exchange project to study the upstream inputs into Ore Lake and the surrounding region. We are very excited to begin this work and looking forward to all that we can learn from their expertise! We will keep you updated as this project gets off the ground. You can find more information about the project here: https://thrivingearthexchange.org/…/ore-lake-hamburg-mi/