The Lost Towns Submerged by Croton and Hardy Dams

By Brandon Scott Devries

The future of the Muskegon River-and your community-is being decided right now.

Hard decisions about aging dams don't just happen in engineering offices or courtrooms. They happen at kitchen tables, county commission meetings, and on the waterfronts where people live, work, and recreate. When a dam changes, it directly impacts your property values, tax bills, safe drinking water, local business revenue, and cultural history.

Whether you live on Hardy Pond, fish near Croton Dam, serve on a township board, or run a local business, you need clear facts-not technical jargon or political rhetoric.

A Practical Guide for the Communities of the Muskegon River gives you the exact tools, local context, and step-by-step frameworks required to ask the right questions and protect your community's future.

Inside this practical guide, you will discover:

Plain-Language Technical Clarity: Understand aging concrete, embankment seepage, and flood risks without needing an engineering degree.Property & Tax Base Protection: Evaluate the true trade-offs between retrofit, continued operation, and removal on waterfront property values and local taxes.Civic Action Checkpoints: Break massive, high-stakes civil projects into phased, manageable steps with measurable checkpoints.Ready-to-Use Tools: Public meeting templates, flood scenario maps, and simple checklists designed to translate complex engineering reports into action.

You don't have to leave critical choices to distant regulators and utilities. Equipping yourself with facts stops panic and starts real results.

Don't leave your river's future to chance. Scroll up, click "Buy Now," and bring real answers to your next town meeting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HC5DR5S3
• ISBN13: 9798189815836
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"