Tucker Marine Featured on mLIVE: Lake Michigan shoreline residents erect coastal defenses amid record-high lake levels
Tucker Marine Construction Featured in mLIVE article
Installing Residential Seawalls as Lake Levels Break Records
'Scott Tucker, owner of Tucker Marine Construction, said business hasn’t slowed since last fall. Now most of his customers, having weathered the fall and seeing the record levels ahead, are wanting to turn their temporary coastal defenses into permanent ones, such as seawalls and riprap.
“Anybody that lives on an at-risk site has pretty much come to the conclusion they’re going to have to do something,” he said.
From a bird’s eye view, the West Michigan shoreline has vastly changed from a year ago. Where last year there was only sand, now you might see a chain of coastal defenses, Tucker said.
“I’ve done thousands of feet of (coastal defense) and other companies have done thousands of feet,” he said. “If you see all the different things that have been built, it’s amazing. Before, very few of them had walls or revetments.”'
- First Appeared on mLIVE https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/04/lake-michigan-shoreline-residents-erect-coastal-defenses-amid-record-high-lake-levels.html
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