Five years after the catastrophic failure of the Edenville Dam in Midland County, which led to widespread destruction and forced mass evacuations, the promised repairs remain largely unfulfilled.

Thousands of people impacted by the Edenville Dam failure in 2020 can be part of a class action lawsuit recently certified by the Michigan Court of Claims. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A Michigan judge has issued a ruling allowing a lawsuit filed against the state by victims of mid-Michigan flooding in 2020 to proceed toward trial. Judge James Robert Redford of ...

LANSING, MI / ACCESS Newswire / May 13, 2025 / The Michigan Court of Claims has denied the State of Michigan's motion for summary disposition, allowing homeowners from Midland and Saginaw Counties to ...

Attorneys for about 2,000 Midland-area residents criticized what they called the state's delaying tactics in court five years after the May 19, 2020, failure of the Edenville Dam, which flooded ...

EDENVILLE, Mich. – Attorneys say newly unsealed court documents reveal Michigan state officials received repeated warnings about the Edenville Dam’s critical safety deficiencies for three years before ...

At a Monday afternoon motion hearing, Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford rejected the state of Michigan’s request to resolve a case brought by several individuals impacted by the 2020 ...

More than five years after the catastrophic failure of the Edenville Dam, crews are deep into the most complex and costly phase of its restoration. The dam, which once held back Wixom Lake, breached ...

Michigan Court of Claims denied the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy a summary disposition motion Wednesday regarding the Edenville Dam failure. With this ruling, several ...

A hard rain was falling on Midland County, Michigan, on May 19, 2020, when tens of thousands of residents were told by authorities to evacuate the area out of fear that the overwhelmed Edenville Dam ...