The Flat Rock City Council has approved potentially agreeing to purchase the Flat Rock dam from the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority that currently owns it.

Purchasing the decommissioned hydropower dam would allow the city more control over the future of it and the impoundment it creates - but some are wary of future upkeep expenses.

The future of the Flat Rock dam, of large concern to residents of the community built around its impoundment of water on the Huron River, could end up in local hands.

Huron-Clinton Metroparks, which operates 13 parks across five southeast Michigan counties, owns the Flat Rock dam and is offering to sell it to the city of Flat Rock for $5 — with $4.5 million in additional funds going from Metroparks to the city for dam upkeep.

"This action bolsters the

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