BlackBox Radio is reporting that Judge William E. Collette ruled against the project to build a 600 foot long wastewater-discharge pipeline headed by the Nugent Sand Company this past week. The pipeline would have gone through a 4,000 year old Lake Michigan Dune near Muskegon. The wastewater project was to lower water levels on company property in order to construct 65 homes around two manmade lakes formed from years of sand mining. The Ingham County Circuit Judge sided with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, saying that the Nugent Sand Company’s proposed pipeline was a violation of the Michigan Sand Dune Protection Act.
Nugent Sand Company, which has been in operation since 1912, still has permission from a permit issued from the Department of Environmental Quality in May to mine sand near the Muskegon coast for at least another five years. Sand mining is a direct cause of erosion, turbidity, and flooding, and has negative effects on local wildlife.
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