I figure that many readers haven’t had a chance to poke around and check out all that construction that has closed the riverfront trail and eaten a giant hole in the riverfront east of Caesar’s…
Looks like work is progressing nicely. The project has to be completed by March 31, 2011. If it’s not, the contractor is on the hook for $10,000 per calendar day in damages…
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I think its great. Hopefully, our actions on this side will inspire Detroit to fix their sewer problems.
I agree with Adam. It's tough to demand that Detroit clean up it's act until we have done so. Toronto did this too and it has made a huge difference in what's being dumped into Lake Ontario. I am proud to live in a city that has made this a priority.
Not only is it a storage tank to hold the overflow during storms, it will also treat the sewage before discharging it into the river. It has made a mess of the riverfront, but it is necessary, and cyclists are safe on riverside drive.
As for the canal - calling a ditch a canal doesn't make it one. It isn't going to connect to the river, and we already have an amazing water feature here in Windsor - the Detroit River. A downtown Marina sounds interesting, but would need some studies... do boaters want to come to Windsor?
Re: Detroit dumping in the river.
Detroit has a similar plan to build a large sewage retention basin to catch the overflow during heavy rains near Chene Park. Their plan is still in the planning/approval stages though.
I have to disagree with David. I have changed my route now that the drive is blocked, and I cut up Walker and then west. Cars give no quarter on the drive!
Mark, do you have any idea if it's going to impact the old Globe(?)wearhouse there? I thik it's right in the middle of the planned area.
Well I agree catching storm water is a priority, however I believe a cheaper and better solution would have been to avail the use abandoned industrial lands such as the ones between St. Luke and Walker and develop parks with retention ponds.
Mike K. The reason we have a problem is that Windsor has a lot of old combined sewers. When we have heavy rains, the sewage treatment cannot keep up and raw sewage ends up being dumped into the river. This is a containment basin that will be covered (you will not know that it is there) and the contents can be treated after the heavy rainfalls are done. We cannot put raw sewage into open air ponds in the middle of parks.
I really hate what has been done by dumping boulders on rivers edge... Wait until all the trees grow in and block the view from path... Its happening already...
i'm dismayed that they had to trash just about the whole park for this retention system