Kalamazoo River

The settlement means the state of Michigan's lawsuit will not proceed. The state sued Eagle Creek for damages stemming from a dam drawdown that caused as much as 400,000 cubic yards of sediment to be released into the Kalamazoo River.

Construction on the northeastern leg of the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail was expected to begin in 2020, but the project was delayed — and not just because of the pandemic.

A dam operator that polluted the Kalamazoo River by allowing large amounts of sediment to flow out of a reservoir has pulled out of the cleanup effort, according to state environmental regulators.

Scientists at the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service are looking for sea lampreys in streams that flow into the Kalamazoo River.Lampreys have been an invasive…