Name: High-water public-information webinars address Great Lakes risks, 2020
Start: 2020-03-19
End: 2020-05-14
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Dates: 2020-03-19 – 2020-05-14
Kind: Webinar
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: weatherwater-levelsshorelinepublic-serviceeducation
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

From March through May 2020, Beaver Island Forum notices relayed a sequence of public webinars organized by state, federal, NOAA, watershed, and county emergency-management partners. The announced subjects progressed from regional water-level forecasts and government response to shoreline permitting, erosion, inland flooding, septic systems, and drinking-water wells. The notices provide context for the Beaver Island Association’s 2019 assistance request and its August 2020 island-focused summit.

Evidence limits

These records establish public outreach that was announced or made available through the forum. They do not establish attendance, the content of every presentation, a Beaver Island gauge reading, property-specific damage, or the effectiveness of any recommended response.

Sources

Pam Grassmick, “Michigan Flood Insurance,” Beaver Island Forum, March 11, 2020.
A shoreline owner reported obtaining a $250,000 USAA flood policy for an annual premium of $516 and thanked neighbors for help. This is a single resident's contemporaneous insurance experience, not a general availability, price, coverage, or eligibility statement.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015014
Michigan High Water Action Team, “High Water Summit’s first town hall webinar scheduled for March 26,” reproduced in the Beaver Island Forum, March 19, 2020, topic 15041.
The reproduced state notice announced a March 26 webinar with EGLE, MDOT, DNR, MDARD, DIFS, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on water-level basics, forecasts, statewide impacts, resources, and government response. It establishes the planned public outreach, not attendance or agency action on a particular island property.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015041
NOAA and partner agencies, “Webinar Addressing Great Lakes Water Levels,” reproduced in the Beaver Island Forum, April 12, 2020, topic 15115.
The notice invited Beaver Islanders to an April 13 multi-agency webinar on high-water causes, climate outlook, impacts, watches and warnings, and lake-level outlooks, amid a local warning of 50-mph winds and 7–12-foot waves. The forum copy does not provide attendance or a local impact assessment.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015115
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, “Rising Waters in Northern Michigan,” reproduced in the Beaver Island Forum, May 5, 2020, topic 15177.
The notice announced a May 14 webinar with federal, state, watershed, and county emergency-management experts on forecasts, permitting, shoreline protection, inland flooding, septic systems, and drinking-water wells. It establishes planned information-sharing, not attendance, advice received, or damage outcomes.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015177
Megan Anderson / Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, “Webinar for Shoreline Property Owners,” Beaver Island Forum, May 9, 2020.
The notice repeated the May 14 multi-agency webinar and included a property owner’s account of awaiting a DEQ permit for a failing seawall. The permit and erosion claims are not treated as independently verified project outcomes.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015191

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “High-water public-information webinars address Great Lakes risks, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-high-water-public-webinars-2020/, accessed [date], citing Pam Grassmick, “Michigan Flood Insurance,” Beaver Island Forum, March 11, 2020. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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