Senate Bill 860 (S-6) – the less protective option for our aquatic resources.  This bill was voted on May 15, 2008. Senator Prusi offered an amendment to SB860 to reduce the allowable damage to coldwater fisheries from 3% to less than 1%.  The amendment was not passed, it received a tie vote, 19-19, with the following votes cast: Yeas – Anderson, Clark-Coleman, Kahn, Scott, Barcia, Clarke, Olshove, Switalski, Basham, Gleason, Prusi, Thomas, Brater, Hunter, Richardville, Whitmer, Cherry, Jacobs, Schauer Nays – Allen, Cropsey, Jansen, Patterson, Birkholz, Garcia, Jelinek, Sanborn, Bishop, George, Kuipers, Stamas, Brown, Gilbert, McManus, Van Woerkom, Cassis, Hardiman,...

This past week the House finished passing all of the bills in their water withdrawal legislative package.  Both Senate and House water bill packages now stand even in progress, and remain to be negotiated.  Among the remaining points of difference are: Adverse Resource Impact Definitions for Coldwaters: The Senate is now at 3% reduction to thriving fish abundance (21% reduction in summer low water flows) for Coldwater “streams”;  and “less than 1%” reduction in thriving fish abundance (20% reduction in summer low flows) for coldwater “small rivers”.  The House calls for “less than 1%” reduction of coldwater fish abundance in...

Here’s some of the recent work that’s been done around the area of the Tyler Creek Golf Course.