A Quick Tour Of Mullett Township
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There is also the Mullett Township Party Line or you make drink the Kool-Aid from the Topinabee Development Association "Artesian" Well
Mullett Township is a general law township in Cheboygan County, Michigan. The population was 1312 in the 2010 US census. The township and Mullett Lake are named for John Mullett, who with William Burt, surveyed much of the area between 1840 and 1843.The commercial center of the Township is the quiet unincorporated Village of Topinabee located on the west shore of Mullett Lake on M27 highway. The village is a trailhead for the DNR Trail with off-street parking and restrooms.The village has a Post Office, Convenience Store with gas pumps, Public Library with 24 hour outdoor WiFi, an artisan-owned woodwork shop, a breakfast cafe and a bar and grille. Township owned buildings include the Library, Township Hall and Fire Hall, and an unused former school building on Lea St.Recreation needs are served with a beachfront park and covered picnic area, free public boat launch at the north end of the village, a small public access to Mullett Lake across from the Nokia Cafe and tennis court, ball-field, and playground equipment at a public park located up the hill on Lea St.The east side of Mullett Township is largely rural, with no commercial development. Township services include a Fire Hall and volunteer East Mullett Lake Fire Department.
$500,000? Project-The Trail Still Washes Away
With the ribbon cutting scheduled for Monday, July 1, 2013 at 8 PM, last minute arrivals include a bunch of picnic tables, another cigarette butt receptacle, and the first wash-outs of the DNR Trail with silt washing into the safe zone of the play area. .
A few tables apparently have shipping damage and it will be interesting to see how the donor plaques will be affixed to these damaged units.
The old butt receptacle appears to be full and I guess that is why it is being replaced.
One additional grill has been installed near the pavilion and the other two are positioned to serve pedestrians using the ADA walkway. Perhaps the project coordinator can tell us if the intent is to eventually install some tables on the lakeside of the trail?
Who engineered this gully washer? Is it a qualified expert?
More concrete equals more run-off. The first brief downpour on June 27, 2013 washed this bank out and down on to the ADA walk. Water runs downhill. Water from paved lots and concrete sidewalks runs downhill faster. The small lot at the north end of the Library now drains unimpeded across the DNR Trail and resulted in this nice washout. Congrats to the experts who added more concrete, creating more run-off.
The storm-water retention area appears sized to handle a once in a month summer storm. It is one quarter full with a few minutes of rain and most of the run-off enters at the north end, washing topsoil into the drains.
Washout of the new beach on June 27, 2013, three days before the "Ceremonial" Ribbon Cutting. Despite comments by big-headed CEO types that only professional engineers can comment on the design flaws, as a layperson with two eyes, looks like someone goofed.
