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A major flood struck the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. In early April, a foot/30 cm of snow fell across the region. In early April, a foot/30 cm of snow fell across the region. Intense rainfall on April 18 and 19 of 75–125 mm (3.0–4.9 in) fell over a short time frame into the residual snowpack, increasing the magnitude of the flood.
1986 Michigan Wolverines football team – Under head coach Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled an 11–2 record and a berth in the 1987 Rose Bowl. The team's statistical leaders included Jim Harbaugh with 2,729 passing yards, Jamie Morris with 1,086 rushing yards, Ken Higgins with 621 receiving yards, and Mike Gillette with 59 points scored.
The Tittabawassee River (/ ˈ t ɪ t ə b ə ˈ w ɑː s i / TIH-tə-bə-WAH-see) flows in a generally southeasterly direction through the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river begins at Secord Lake in Clement Township , at the confluence of the East Branch and the Middle Branch. [ 3 ]
A lawsuit that accuses the state of Michigan of failing to regulate and enforce safety regulations on a dam that failed, causing an estimated $200 million in damages and destroying 2,500 ...
The most notable flooding occurred in 1986, 1997, 2017, and 2023. [12] The 1997 storm was the largest recorded event on the Cosumnes River, with peak flow of 97,000 cubic feet per second at the Michigan Bar stream gauge [13] estimated to be close to a 200-year event. Many Cosumnes levees breached during this storm.
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The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986) is part of Pub. L. 99–662, a series of acts enacted by Congress of the United States on November 17, 1986. [1]WRDA 1986 established cost sharing formulas for the construction of harbors, inland waterway transportation, and flood control projects and established rules therefor.
[19] A number of dams were constructed in the early 20th century for flood control and power generation. In 1957, as part of a M-21 Grand River bridge replacement project, the mouth of the Thornapple and lower channel were relocated about 500 feet upstream on the Grand, and land that had been the site of Robinson's first home in Ada and trading ...