Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
THE FOUR-FOOT-HIGH, 10-foot-long beach prisms installed in a long line at Oman's Creek last October to prevent erosion are almost completely covered with sand after roughly nine months of use. Oman's Creek was the first time the technology was used in the state of Michigan and is being examined for use elsewhere in the state.
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The barriers the Michigan Department of Natural Resources installed last fall to try and prevent erosion at Oman's Creek at Little Girl's Point appear to have worked.
The DNR's installation of the Beach Prisms - 4-by-10-foot concrete blocks specially designed to allow the movement of water through them - in October were the first use of the technology in Michigan.
Jeff Gaertner, park manager for the Porcupine Mountains State Park and Lake Gogebic area, said because the beach at Oman's Creek is rockier than sandy beaches on the East Coast, where the Beach Prisms had previous...
