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.
“White Lake has much to be proud of,” Alan Steinman, director of Grand Valley State University’ Annis Water Institute in Muskegon, told the audience who crowded into the community room at the White Lake Community Library on a Sunday afternoon (Sept. 23) to celebrate the kickoff of the library’s 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.
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