A federal judge in Michigan dismissed two lawsuits that have questioned a special rating of 217 million US dollars that imposed the owners in order to finance the reconstruction of four insenses that were destroyed in 2020 and decided that homeowners had an adequate opportunity to defend themselves to the state court.
The US district judge Matthew F. Leitman decided on Thursday that the plaintiffs, including the Heron Cove Association and individual homeowners, cannot understand their failed court court claims before the Federal Court, which gave a big blow to their offer to lift the special tax.
Damm catastrophe leads to a fight for several million dollars
The complaints come from the catastrophic collapse of the Edenville dam in May 2020, which unleashed historical floods, which also overwhelmed the Sanford Dam and devastated houses and shops in the counties of Midland and Gladwin.
In order to finance the efforts between $ 400 million, the Four Lakes Task Force, a state-appointed supervisory authority, developed a special evaluation plan to cover $ 217 million of costs over a period of 40 years of movement, which triggered outrage from some owners.