Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
CHRIS JACOBSON operates a excavator while Scott Cebolski holds a damaged guard rail on Lake Road at Little Girl's Point Friday during the effort to repair a washed-out culvert. The wash-out was one of several that resulted from heavy rains Monday night, cutting off access to a portion of the Point.
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - With cheering occupants, a line of cars crossed the bridge over Oman's Creek, heading east on Lake Road shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, signaling the restoration of access to part of Little Girl's Point.
The vehicles were the first to cross the bridge and leave the Point since heavy rains and flooding washed out a number of culverts in the area Monday night.
Divers inspected the bridge's foundation Friday morning, according to Gogebic County Road Commission Engineer-Manager Darren Pionk, to ensure it remained structurally sound.
The divers found "some damage, but nothing th...
