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In reading more on this as new info comes out, Boyce still owns the dams. The property owners group has a purchase agreement but had been in charge of operations and paid for the recent (non-structural) repairs - how does that work?? The sale was not scheduled to be finalized until later this year. So the waters are muddied further, so to speak.
Also, the State of Michigan is neck-deep in this thing. MI Attny General sued Boyce just 4 weeks ago for lowering the water level in the lake and exposing aquatic life to harm! So the State, knowing for years that the dam was structurally defective and a high hazard to the City of Midland and Dow Chemical demanded that the lake be full. Yet Gov Whitmer said she's considering legal action - against who, her own administration?
This entire thing is a cluster. A combination of a deadbeat owner and Federal, State, and County governments that were either incompetent or unwilling to shut down a defective dam. I guess they all had other priorities.
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