Bringing Back White Lake The Beautiful
Channel: Oscar Osbo
Date: 2015-06-30

“Bringing Back White Lake the Beautiful” is a short story of the pollution and recovery of White Lake, in northern Muskegon County, Michigan. 

White Lake was designated a Great Lakes Area of Concern in 1985 due to its industrial and municipal pollution, one of 43 in the Great Lakes. This qualified the lake for a special cleanup program to advance restoration. Members of the community worked for decades under this program with state and federal partners, and were successful when in October 2014, the lake was officially delisted as a Great Lakes Area of Concern.

The work is not done. There are still ongoing issues to monitor and there will be new issues to address in the future. 

Stewardship and protection of White Lake will continue. 

We hope you enjoy watching the video, learn from it, and become inspired by our success story. 

The most important lesson we learned is that citizens can make a difference! A big difference! 

Please help share our story! 

Learn more at www.restoringwhitelake.com. 

Executive Producers: Oscar Osbo and Tanya Cabala

Documentary Video Committee: Roger Scharmer, Deb Hays, Tom Berdinski, Teri Osbo, Ken Mahoney, and Jerry Grady

Poem: Written and read by Megan Brown

Narrators: Beth Beaman, Greg Mund, Deb Hays, Jerry Grady, Roger Scharmer, Ken Mahoney, Tanya Cabala, and Oscar Osbo 

Funding provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Great Lakes Commission to the Muskegon Conservation District for the White Lake Public Advisory Council.