According to court documents filed April 29, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to the state to resolve a lawsuit stemming from a pre-Covid dam drawdown.
In 2019, Eagle Creek — which owns the Morrow Dam — began lowering the water level on Morrow Lake. The drawdown resulted in a flood of sediment into the Kalamazoo River, covering some areas of the riverbed in up to 12 feet of mud and burying riverbed habitats.
Cleanup efforts were later abandoned by Eagle Creek, and in 2022 an Ingham County judge ruled a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Dana Nessel against Eagle Creek could move forward…