The old ELF facility in the central U.P. has been closed for a few years now, and its fate has been in question for most of that time. Now, the local township it's located in has a plan to make good use out of the secure, high-tech facility.
Excerpt: For 15 years, a giant ELF in the Upper Peninsula was an important part of America's national defenses.
No relation to Michigan's trolls, as Yoopers call those of us who live beneath the Mackinac Bridge, ELF was a controversial Extremely Low Frequency transmitter that spanned 150 miles from Humboldt Township in the Central U.P. west to Clam Lake, Wis.
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Source: The Detroit Free Press
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