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City Council seeking input for Cass River stabilization

  The meandering bend in the Cass River and it curves around Heritage Park is now creating problems along the outer banks at East Tuscola Street.

  The City of Frankenmuth is currently drafting a plan to address riverbank stabilization strategies for a 1,200-foot section of the Cass River, near East Tuscola and Hubinger streets.

  The plan will include topics about streambank erosion, existing steel seawall corrosion, potential future impacts to the Star of the West Milling Company, East Tuscola Street stability, and pedestrian access and safety.

  The city is inviting the general public to attend the community input session at 11am Thursday, December 4. The meeting will be held in the Star of the West training room, 121 East Tuscola Street.

  “The meeting will be an opportunity to learn about initial ideas for the plan and the public will have a change to share their thoughts and suggestions to city staff and the consulting engineer in order to help guide this group on how the plan ultimately addresses improvements to this portion of the Cass River streambank,” Frankenmuth Community Development Specialist Alan Bean said.

  The good news is this planning project is fully covered by a $199,890 grant provided to the city by the State of Michigan via a disaster recovery program. The overall project will be s strategic planning report to the city can address future improvements to the part of the Cass River that runs downstream from Memorial Park boat launch to the Frankenmuth Brewery, inclusive with the Star of the West, about 1,200 lineal feet of streambank. .....

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