ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (WOOD) — High water levels on Lake Michigan have property owners looking for solutions to fight back against devastating erosion.
Waterfront engineering and design firm Edgewater Resources is working on projects throughout the Great Lakes. Greg Weykamp, the founder of the St. Joseph-based firm, says many methods are used, like placing large boulderson a slope.
“It absorbs and actually dissipates a lot of that wave energy so it doesn’t actually bounce back off, so that’s why we use that the most,” Weykamp said.
Other property owners have turned to a steel sea wallwith stones at the base. Sometimes boulders are placed out away from the shore to break up waves.
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