Albion Dams Removal Project - Construction

Grant: # 2121

Grant Amount: $300,000.00

Board Decision Year: 2025

City of Albion - City Manager (Albion)

City Manager

Deneau, Suzannah ([email protected]) 2694879717

2025 Habitat Protection and Restoration - Habitat protection and restoration

Project Summary

Four dam removals on the North and South Branches of the Kalamazoo River. Removal would result in reconnecting 41 river miles. Removal would facilitate upstream fish passage, allowing native fish species to access spawning, foraging, and thermal refugia habitats, and would rehabilitate high gradient stream reaches upstream. Removals also benefit the aquatic ecosystem by restoring natural transport of sediment, wood, and nutrients and eliminating existing water temperature increases from expanded solar radiation exposure in impoundments.