A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit between the office of the Berrien County Drain Commissioner and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.

The suit goes back to emergency drain work done by the county in the Tanner Creek Drainage District in Bridgman in 2021 for which the drain commissioner didn’t secure a permit. EGLE says the work violated state law, and the former drain commissioner sued. Current Drain Commissioner George McManus told us Thursday the state and county have now reached a consent agreement.

What are the agreement’s terms?

“ There were some boulders, bigger rocks put into that stream that the EGLE wants out of there,” McManus said. “ So a lot of the work that was done will have t

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