Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RALPH ANSAMI
BESSEMER — A year after a devastating storm washed out much of the Little Girl’s Point area and severely damaged other locations, Gogebic County is still about $2 million short of reimbursement costs.
As a result, Michigan’s state senators are supporting a change in rules used to determine federal reimbursements for storm damages so it doesn’t happen again.
The July 11 storm dumped about a foot of rain in four hours and wiped out large culverts and washed away road surfaces.
In a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, the senators p...
