Black River Waterways Committee Taking on Huge Jetty Project

Black River will hopefully be undergoing some significant changes in the near future. The problems with sedimentation in black river have been happening for decades. “As you can see, the sedimentation is growing gigantically. This sand here used to be the river, the mouth of the river used to be sixty, seventy, eighty feet wide, now it’s 25 feet wide. In 2022 the DNR received a grant to fund a study to find a solution to the constant drudging in black river, to solve the sedimentation issue at the mouth of the Black River. The solution would be the installation of two jetties, one on the north side, one on the south side, protruding in the lake, approximately seven hundred and fifty feet,” Black River Waterways Committee Chairman, Dan Gauthier said.

To help implement some of these changes a committee has been established. “The Township Board formed a committee, Black River Waterways Committee. We have five members on that committee,” said Gauthier. The committee has many options for future funding to further their project. “We as a committee and the township have applied for a partnership grant through the DNR. We have received that grant which is $30,000. The township will match that grant giving us $60,000 to complete the next study of what it’s going to take to get this to a permit issue.”