- Date
- 2011-09
- Kind
- Crime
- Where
- Iron Ore Creek
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- infrastructureconservationhydrology
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 2011 Beacon reports that people repeatedly moved the rocks protecting the new bank at the Iron Ore Creek culvert into the stream, creating makeshift dams and diverting its flow. The article says the rocks had already been hauled back up more than once and asks readers to stop.
Evidence limits
The report does not identify the people responsible, quantify damage, or establish a later repair or enforcement action.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2011, "Dam the Creek."Reports that unknown persons repeatedly threw the rocks protecting the new bank into Iron Ore Creek, forming makeshift dams and diverting the flow; the article asks readers to stop. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the report and accompanying culvert photograph.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-09_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Repeated rock-dam vandalism affects Iron Ore Creek culvert, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-iron-ore-creek-vandalism-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2011, "Dam the Creek." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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