Fighting Island is a acre island in the Detroit River, and is the largest Canadian island in the river. Thomas of Villanova Catholic Secondary School. It is the largest urban island park in the United States and the third largest island in the river after Grosse Ile and Fighting Island.
The island was the site of a brief skirmish on February 24 and 25, , during the Battle of Windsor, part of the Patriot War. Mason Fighting Island. MI State of Michigan Mich. The island was the site of a brief skirmish on February 24 and 25, , during the Battle of Windsor, part of the Patriot War. The land was bought by John B. Ford of the Michigan Alkali Company and was used as a location to deposit waste from their industrial plants which produced soda ash, lye and baking soda.
Nearly 20,, cubic yards 15,, m3 of high pH waste was dumped on the island during its industrial history. Additional Hints Decrypt. What are Attributes? Advertising with Us. There are no Trackables in this cache. View past Trackables. Ford of the Michigan Alkali Company to treat the effluent produced by the company. A program is run on the island that is used by many area secondary and elementary schools to teach students about biology and ecology.
December, PM 2. Join Date Mar Posts 2, Horribly polluted but an interesting experiment in reclamation of the island through natural measures. December, PM 3. Join Date Mar Posts I believe you can only visit via the permission of BASF.
I know that BASF takes some employees out there for conferences and duck hunting. This link to a Freep photo article explains quite a bit of what is going on. December, PM 4. Join Date Mar Posts 1, The Corps used the island for dumping Rouge River dredgings from the early s until December, PM 5.
Join Date Mar Posts 3, Originally Posted by Novine. December, PM 6. Originally Posted by Guideboat. December, PM 7. Originally Posted by MikeM. December, AM 8. Join Date Apr Posts The island at the foot of the Southfield is Mud Island, and if one looks at an aerial image, it is roughly rectangular in shape. Immediately to the southeast of that is Grassy Island, another dredging dump ground, which borders the Fighting Island shipping channel on the American side and is an important call in point for commercial vessel traffic.
I was not aware that the Corps also deposited dredging tailings on Fighting Island but that doesn't surprise me. December, PM 9. Originally Posted by Rocko. December, PM The Corps definitely deposited dredging material on Fighting Island.
By the summer on , they had filled the waste beds to the point that any additional sediment was eroded and washed downstream. As a result they came up with a proposal to build a dike around Grassy Island and create there a acre waste bed. A battle with the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife Service dragged on into the s, but in the meantime the Deptartment of the Interior allowed the Corps to use a scaled back acre site on Grassy Island for Rouge River dredging slurry.
The more solid materials were taken to a dumping ground in Lake Erie. Our son tells me that he and his son have been over to Fighting Island with a school class on a field trip. He also tells me that BASF management has arranged with the Town of LaSalle for them to receive the towns' collected yard waste so that they can refurbish the soil there.
He said the projects they have happening on the island are very interesting from an ecological standpoint. Our son was telling us this back in the summer. Join Date Jun Posts I spent many summer evenings from about to about water skiing with my uncle and cousins in the channel between Fighting Island and the Canadian shore. He kept his boat on the Ecorse Creek west of Biddle. Sometimes when the wind was coming from the wrong direction it was a bit problematic getting out.
It was usually smooth as glass for miles, perfect for skiing. Sometimes there would be a bit of a chop and we would go to the channel between [[I think Turkey Island and the Canadian shore where it was never choppy. We walked on the firm parts of the dikes a few times but it was really creepy. Perfect place to bury Hoffa.
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