A view of the shore of Muskegon Lake.
LANSING
It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.
Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.
“For generations, people in nearby neighborhoods were told by their parents and their grandparents not to go to …