EGLE Public Comment Period for NorthShore Marina Permits to Close July 2
Join the June 27 Coastal Alliance Town Hall to Learn How to Make Your Opposition Heard
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 27
WHERE: Saugatuck High School Auditorium, 401 Elizabeth St.
WHAT: Learn more – including key points to make in your comments to EGLE and how to submit them.
NorthShore of Saugatuck has completed its re-application for permits to build their marina at the Kalamazoo River Mouth – a project that would:
Create unsafe navigational conditions,
Permanently erase 6.5 acres of rare Critical Dunes,
Significantly alter the groundwater beneath the globally imperiled interdunal wetlands,
Eradicate spiritual sites on the Pottawatomi Traditional Cultural Property and threaten lake sturgeon, wild rice, and other tribal cultural values, and
Permanently damage the historic site of Singapore.
NorthShore’s original five-year permit expired in January. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), which issues the state permits, has opened the 20-day public comment period. Comments are due no later than July 2. We need you and your family, friends, and neighbors to write EGLE to tell them to deny the permits.
Following the public comment period, EGLE will hold a public hearing. We will provide details about the hearing once it’s been scheduled.
David Swan, our co-founder and board president, Bobbie Gaunt, our board chair, and Scott Howard, who leads our legal team, will talk about the proposed marina, why we’re determined to stop it, and details for submitting the most powerful public comment to EGLE.
More information to come. For now, please put the June 27 town hall on your calendar. We look forward to seeing you then!
The Coastal Alliance Board of Directors
