Kalamazoo River

(Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Terry Johnston)

6 Michigan Dam Projects Get Share Of $2.3M

The state says six Michigan dam removal or repair projects are getting a share of more than $2.3 million in funding.

2013/03/22

Oil clings to plants along the Kalamazoo River after an oil spill of approximately 840,000 gallons of crude oil July 28, 2010 in Marshall. (Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

EPA Orders Dredging To Remove Kalamazoo River Oil

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered Enbridge Inc. to dredge sections of the Kalamazoo River to remove sediments tainted by oil from a massive spill.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/03/16

Consumers Energy's Croton Dam on the Muskegon River in Newaygo County. Wikimedia Commons photo.

Consumers Energy: Be Careful On Ice Around Hydropower Dams

Consumers Energy is advising the public to practice extreme caution when visiting areas near its 13 hydroelectric generating plants in the winter months, located on the Manistee, Muskegon, Au Sable, Kalamazoo and Grand rivers.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/01/28

EPA: More Cleanup Needed In 2010 Enbridge Spill

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday told Enbridge Inc. that the pipeline company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Kalamazoo River system requires more cleanup work.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/10/06

Bryan DeGoede and the state-record black buffalo (credit: DNR)

K-Zoo Man Lands Record-Breaking Sucker

A Kalamazoo angler took the state record hook, line and sinker when he reeled in a massive black buffalo fish weighing over 37 pounds.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/09/17

1 Person Dead After Being Struck By Train In Kalamazoo

Authorities say a train struck someone who was walking across a trestle over the Kalamazoo River in southwestern Michigan.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/07/28

Groups Protest Tar Sands Oil On Spill Anniversary

Environmental groups are raising concerns about transporting tar sands oil in underground pipelines on the second anniversary of a spill that polluted the Kalamazoo River.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/07/25

The Grand Valley State University Annis Water Research Institute in Muskegon

GVSU Gets Grant To Study Lake Sturgeon In Kalamazoo River

Researchers from Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resources Institute have been awarded a $50,000 one-year grant from the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, the Gun Lake Tribe, to study lake sturgeon in the Kalamazoo River.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/07/25

Feds: Neglect, Inaction Caused Michigan Oil Spill

A Canadian company’s failure to deal adequately with cracks in an oil pipeline and its slow response to a 2010 rupture in southwestern Michigan likely caused the most expensive onshore oil spill in U.S. history, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/07/10