Alan Steinman, director of GVSU’s Annis Water Institute, was the featured speaker at the Sept. 23 kickoff event for the White Lake Environmental History project.

Steinman referred to the community’s efforts at restoring the lake which was the “poster child” for industrial pollution in the 1970s, and the subject of Audubon magazine’s Sept. 1985 feature story, “Montague and the Temple of Doom” which chronicled the environmental devastation as a result of Hooker Chemical Company’s operations.