SOUTH HAVEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The battle against a relentlessly rising Lake Michigan is being fought in places like Mark Odland’s lakefront property, using five-ton limestone boulders from Wisconsin.
It’s costing some property owners more than $100,000.
“I’d like to believe that we’re competing with Mother Nature,” Odland said as he watched a crew from deBest Inc. of South Haven build his wall. “Mother Nature is always going to win, and all we can do is do what we can right now by putting these boulders in and hoping that the lake begins to drop.”
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