and worsening storms could make flooding a bigger threat to shoreline property.
Yale Climate Connections reports on the rising levels of the Great Lakes: these water levels characteristically rise and fall over a long period of time. However, these fluctuations persist just long enough that most people forget that levels were ever different. Once the water level does go up or down again, the landscape can entirely change.
"When water levels in the Great Lakes are low for a long time, people might build too close to the shore," causing great damage when these levels inevitably rise again.
"Many landowners along the lakeshore have built sea walls to help protect their properties. But Norton says that these sea walls only buy limited time," the complicated truth of which we have seen at many of our jobsites.
“'The day someone puts in a sea wall is the day the lake starts to try and take it back out.' He says that in some locations, the best way to prevent property damage may be to limit building too close to the shore." When the property is already established, as is generally the case, is obviously not an option.
Eagle Shoreline Protection LLC was formed with the awareness of these rising levels, the conditions that come with them, and the very obvious damage this rise has caused to shores across Michigan. Our solution for this - for you - is a living shoreline, the only technique that strengthens and rebuilds a shoreline over time instead of inducing the further erosion of it (like seawalls, rip rap, etc.).
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