MIDLAND, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A bankruptcy court denied a filing from the the former operator of Boyce Hydro and the Edenville Dam, saying the effort “smacked of bad faith.”

Lee Mueller owned the company and a federal judge ordered him to pay $120 million last year for natural resource damages caused by the Edenville Dam disaster in May 2020.

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Boyce Hydro used to own the Edenville, Sanford, Secord and Smallwood dams. The Edenville and Sanford dams failed in 2020, causing millions of dollars in damage to property in Gladwin, Midland and Saginaw counties.