A 30-Foot-Wide Sinkhole Opens On Private Property Near Clay Cliffs In Leelanau County
By Craig Manning | July 6, 2022
High water, low water, and erosion are seemingly always on the minds of waterfront property owners in Leelanau County. But sinkholes? That’s a new one.
A local landscaping company recently discovered a newly formed 30-foot gap in the earth while creating a new residential patio near the Clay Cliffs Natural Area in Leland. That sinkhole, in turn, created a small stream.
TruNorth Landscaping’s Heather Kortokrax says the company’s staff encountered what she describes as “basically a little river running through the property that did not exist before,” thanks to a “giant sinkhole” that had opened on the property.
The team stabilized the shoreline, and sinkholes remain rare, but The Michigan ...
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