The GVSU Making Waves Intitiative presents
Confluence Conversations Rising Great Lakes Water Levels
High Great Lake levels affect West Michigan, eroding lakeshore property, damaging public parks and natural spaces. Experts will present data, information, and images documenting the impacts of rising lake levels. Deanna Apps, US Army Corp of Engineers Lead Forecaster, will give a presentation entitled “Rising Great Lakes Levels.” Curt Terhaar, landscape architect and planner, and Curtis Dykstra, park naturalist, will speak about the effects of high water levels on erosion in Ottawa County Parks.