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Detroit River named American Heritage River
Spotlight | august 8,1999 | Margo Turner

Posted on 04/04/2016 10:35:39 AM PDT by Boowhoknew

President Bill Clinton signed a executive order (EO 13061)on September 11,1997 naming 14 rivers as American Heritage Rivers which supported community led efforts relating revitalization, protection of natural resources and the environment and to preserve historic and cultural heritage. The funding, 500 Billion Dollars was to be allocated from various federal agencies. The Detroit River in Michigan was one of the rivers named.


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I came across this the other day and wondered how much of the funding was actually used to help the waterways, especially in the light of recent developments in Flint, Michigan..
1 posted on 04/04/2016 10:35:39 AM PDT by Boowhoknew
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To: Boowhoknew

They are in the process of building that Second Bridge to Windsor South of the Ambassador.

I am eagerly waiting to get down there and check it out and to do some Serious Walleye Fishing but the weather around here the last two weeks have been nasty.


2 posted on 04/04/2016 10:39:12 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Boowhoknew

More Democrat money laundering.


3 posted on 04/04/2016 10:39:45 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: VRWCarea51

They are in the process of building that Second Bridge to Windsor South of the Ambassador.

I am eagerly waiting to get down there and check it out and to do some Serious Walleye Fishing but the weather around here the last two weeks have been nasty.

Some of the very best Walleye fishing in the area is where Lake St Clair empties into the Detroit river on the Canadian side.


4 posted on 04/04/2016 10:52:20 AM PDT by heshtesh ((New Yorker for Cruz))
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To: VRWCarea51

The best is by the power plant outflow between Grosse Ile and Trenton!


5 posted on 04/04/2016 10:59:49 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: VRWCarea51

They are in the process of building that Second Bridge to Windsor South of the Ambassador.
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I didn’t know the second bridge was approved. Thought Matty Maroun was still holding it up.


6 posted on 04/04/2016 11:01:12 AM PDT by TheRake
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Snagfest....I only go there if I have too. Mid River is where I like to hang out....Steel Mill, two rocks, salt mines, fighting Island, cow pasture and whiskey mill.

And of course If your going up stream you have to do the cobo hall/ Joe drift.


7 posted on 04/04/2016 11:03:01 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: TheRake

#6 Nope. he got rolled... :) And Canada is paying for it.(at least that is the story we are told)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/michigan-proposal-6-results-bridge_n_2084608.html


8 posted on 04/04/2016 11:06:41 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: heshtesh
Some of the very best Walleye fishing in the area is where Lake St Clair empties into the Detroit river on the Canadian side.

AKA The Cow Pasture...

9 posted on 04/04/2016 11:08:27 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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AKA The Cow Pasture...

Windsor is my home town and i’m not familiar with the term Cow Pasture for that stretch of water....can you elaborate?


10 posted on 04/04/2016 11:36:21 AM PDT by heshtesh ((New Yorker for Cruz))
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To: VRWCarea51
Agreed on the Walleye fishing. The weather needs to break soon. Usually go out of Port Clinton, Ohio. Slayed em last Spring ☺. The new bridge will be named after Gordie Howe. A Canadian, and of course a great Hockey Player for The Detroit Red Wings.
11 posted on 04/04/2016 11:38:55 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: heshtesh

Windsor is my home town also and I am not familiar with it either.


12 posted on 04/04/2016 11:39:35 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
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To: Boowhoknew

Flint Michigan wasn’t really an issue of pollution, as far as I understand.

This is what I understand of the case:

Lots of homes in Flint had lead pipes. Rather than remove the lead pipes, a sealant was put on them to make the water from them safe to drink. Perfectly good, clean drinking water from a nearby river was pumped into the city water system. But the lead pipes required “corrosion inhibitors” to keep the sealants from dissolving. Absent the inhibitors, the natural water dissolved lead already in people’s homes.


13 posted on 04/04/2016 12:24:39 PM PDT by dangus
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It’s the deeper water just south of the River mouth Running along the Canadian Side. They pull a lot of big Hens out of there, hence the term cow pasture...


14 posted on 04/04/2016 1:23:08 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: dangus

#13 Yeap and a whole lot of finger pointing, blame being thrown around.


15 posted on 04/04/2016 1:24:57 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: dangus

And the result is going to be we the Citizens of the State again bail out another Crap Hole run into the dust bin of history by 40 years of rat Control.


16 posted on 04/04/2016 1:26:17 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: blueunicorn6

Such a shame that nothing in politics is done without ulterior motives or with good intentions anymore.


17 posted on 04/04/2016 1:26:29 PM PDT by uncitizen (there's no "conservative country" without a country)
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To: VRWCarea51

I know exactly where you are talking about, i lived on our family boat docked in Little River directly across from the boat launches and would see the guys fishing that area every morning around 5 am.

The guys were like machines, catch their limit in an hour then race in pull the boat race home and back within a half hour and do it again.


18 posted on 04/04/2016 1:54:49 PM PDT by heshtesh ((New Yorker for Cruz))
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