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How many stories pass beneath the #DetroitRiver each day?

Thousands of journeys move through the #DetroitWindsorTunnel, connecting #Detroit and #Windsor through history and community.

Every crossing matters!

Have a favorite Tunnel memory? Share it with us!

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Today the river is full of big sunny spots of ice. #DetroitRiver #DowntownDetroit #WindsorOntarioCanada

City of Detroit, Michigan 🇺🇸 taken from Windsor, Ontario 🇨🇦. #Detroit #Windsor #DetroitRiver #sunset #downtown

Color photograph of a seagull perched on a tall emergency telephone pole on the Detroit river front with the sun behind it. Around the sun are wispy clouds in a blue sky.

From my bike ride Saturday, a seagull purchase on a pole along the Detroit Riverwalk. #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Painterly #DramaticSky #Detroit #DetroitRiver

A view from a boat moving through water, with waves in the foreground created by the boat’s motion. Above, the ambassador bridge with a dark silhouette spans the scene, its cables and towers illuminated by the soft light of a setting or rising sun. The sky is a mix of blue and golden hues with scattered clouds, and a faint rainbow-like arc is visible near the sun. In the distance, a shoreline with trees and structures is faintly outlined.

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Some images from the refuge on a wonderful, sunny morning.

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The hull of the Mesabi Miner glows from the setting sun as the ship nears the Ambassador Bridge on the Detroit River on Friday night. The Mesabi Miner is 1,003 feet long, making it one of the longest ore carriers on the Great Lakes. #GreatLakes #Detroit #DetroitRiver #GreatLakeShipping #Boats #Ships

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The full video is on my YouTube Channel.

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The Detroit RenCen - retrospective photograph

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Summer views like no other ☀️🌆
There’s just something about seeing the city from the water—Detroit shines brightest from the river. Come aboard and soak it all in.

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In this moment he is invincible.

Portrait of childhood invincibility that can only be obtained in youth with the love of a family.

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We had a treat yesterday—the Viking Polaris docked right alongside our route. What a sight to see this stunning expedition ship on the river!

Just another reminder: you never know what you’ll see aboard a Diamond Jack tour.
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Behind the scenes with Robert showing us how to properly tie a line like a true Diamond Jack pro
There’s more to this job than great views crew training never stops!

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Golden skies, city lights, and a river that reflects it all — pure magic.
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Mornings like this
The sun rising over the Detroit River never gets old golden skies, peaceful water, and the city slowly waking up. Pure Michigan magic.
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BASF denies violating pact with state to pump polluted water away from Detroit River A chemical manufacturing plant in Wyandotte that is accused of violating a decades-old consent decree that required it to stop the flow of pollution into the Detroit River contends it isn't violating the order and doesn't need to make any changes to its extraction well system. In a certified letter sent Thursday to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy's Materials Management Division, BASF said it continues to be in compliance with a 1986 consent decree it signed with state officials to prevent contaminated water from migrating into the river. "BASF respectfully disagrees with MMD's (Materials Management Division) interpretation of the consent decree's compliance requirements and objects to MMD's request to modify the remedial system," wrote Michele Barney, a BASF site director, in the letter to the state. "BASF has been and remains in compliance with the consent decree." The company reiterated its position in a statement to The Detroit News on Friday. "BASF is committed to ensuring that all necessary protocols and standards are upheld," said spokesperson Marika Diamond in an email. "We are confident in our operations, and that we are compliant with the requirements outlined in the consent decree." More: State demands that BASF stop flow of pollution into Detroit River BASF's response came two days before a Saturday deadline imposed by state officials to respond to their contention that the facility is not in compliance with the decree. EGLE wrote to the company on March 10, saying regulators found extraction wells were generating fewer than 2 gallons per minute in mid-2024, while up to 60 gallons per minute flowed to the river. The agency ordered the company to take “all necessary and appropriate actions to … halt the flow of contaminated groundwater to the Detroit River.” An EGLE spokesperson on Friday declined to comment about the specifics of BASF's response or the next steps the agency might take in light of the disagreement between EGLE and BASF about whether the company is in compliance. "This is a complicated issue. Since we just received the letter today, our enforcement and technical staff needs time to review," spokesperson Josef Greenberg said in an email to The Detroit News. Brian O'Mara, a Metro Detroit-based hydrogeologist with experience in industrial waste cleanups who owns a consulting company, has contended BASF doesn't need several more years to construct a solution to stop contaminated groundwater from entering the Detroit River. He said BASF has other options, such as creating more wells, or renting a water treatment system while the company finalizes the permanent perimeter barrier. Soil at the BASF site on Biddle Avenue, which is located near Wyandotte's drinking water intake system, is polluted with mercury, PFAS and other volatile compounds. The former marshland was drained and filled with chemical waste in the 1880s. The plant, which is a major employer in Wyandotte, manufactures products including polyurethanes, specialty plastics and resins. The state and BASF entered a 1986 consent agreement in which BASF was to maintain an inward "hydraulic gradient" at the site to prevent contaminated water from migrating into the river. The extraction well system was designed with a flow rate between 10 and 90 gallons per minute. In its Thursday response to the state, BASF said the company has maintained the inward hydraulic gradient required by the longstanding agreement. The company contends the design flow rate does not bear on whether the required gradient has been achieved. "Nowhere in the (basis of design) does it state that this optimal flow rate for effective contaminant treatment need to be achieved to maintain an inward hydraulic gradient," Barney wrote in her response. BASF also disagreed with what it said is a characterization by EGLE that the consent decree requires BASF to halt groundwater flow across the entire North Works site. BASF's response instead pointed to three specific zones covered by the agreement to mitigate groundwater migration. As a result, BASF said the company "does not concede" the accuracy of contour maps generated by the state over several years, which EGLE said show a "consistent outward gradient toward the Detroit River" in support of the agency's contention BASF is not doing enough to mitigate groundwater flow. "As a result, the site-wide groundwater contour maps attached to your March 10, 2025 letter ... are not an appropriate framework against which to evaluate BASF's performance under the consent decree," BASF wrote. Wyandotte's municipal water supply comes from an intake site to the south of BASF's North Works site. But Mayor Robert DeSana said at an April 30 public meeting held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the city's drinking water is safe, because the intake system is 1,500 feet inland from the Detroit River and is positioned 30 feet below the surface. BASF, meanwhile, has plans in progress to construct a physical barrier along the north, east and south boundaries of the Wyandotte site, which the company calls a "comprehensive, long-term groundwater protection measure." The design requires approval by the EPA, which has been the lead agency supervising cleanup of the North Works site since the 1990s. BASF's website says the federal government approved a 60% design draft last November. jcardi@detroitnews.com This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: BASF denies violating pact with state to pump polluted water away from Detroit River

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Here's a sunset landscape photo taken in the west end of Windsor, Ontario.

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State demands that BASF stop flow of pollution into Detroit River EPA holds community meeting as Wyandotte-based chemical plant is accused of violating a 39-year deal to end river contamination.

PFAS are being released into the #DetroitRiver by an international chemical manufacturer, in violation of an agreement with the state of #Michigan. Read more here: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

What state and fed officials plan with BASF to stop pollution flowing into Detroit River State and federal officials said they are working with a chemical manufacturing plant in Wyandotte on a "two-pronged approach" to limit the flow of contaminated groundwater into the Detroit River. The meeting came after the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) wrote a letter to BASF in March, telling the company to take “all necessary and appropriate actions to … halt the flow of contaminated groundwater to the Detroit River.” Officials with EGLE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is the lead agency overseeing cleanup of BASF's North Works site, said they remain in conversation with company officials as they move forward on two remedial efforts: a long-term comprehensive plan and interim plan developed in 2023 after high contamination levels were reported. "We're working on maintaining the interim while we're working on the final cleanup, so we're doing both," said Scott Ireland. The interim plan involves monitoring contamination levels via extraction wells constructed around the site. EGLE regulators had found the wells, created by BASF to pump contaminated groundwater away from the river, generated fewer than 2 gallons per minute in mid-2024, while up to 60 gallons per minute flow to the river is required to meet the terms of a consent agreement BASF entered with the state in 1986. EGLE officials requested follow-up readings and other data to determine the next steps. "After a review of that, as well as site visits where we went out and observed the system ourselves … we did confirm that the system was flowing at a much lower rate than the design specification," said Elizabeth Garver from EGLE's Material Management Division. The company now has until May 10 to respond to EGLE's finding that BASF is violating its agreement with the state. EGLE has declined to comment on what kind of enforcement actions the state may seek if the company fails to rectify the issue. Soil at the BASF site on Biddle Avenue has long been polluted with mercury, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and other volatile compounds considered harmful to consume. A map displayed at Wednesday's meeting showed that the city of Wyandotte gets its municipal water supply from an intake site located just south of BASF's 230-acre campus. But Mayor Robert DeSana said his city's water is safe because the intake is situated "1,500 feet on shore (inland from the river), the length of more than four football fields, and positioned 30 feet below the surface. This distance and depth play a critical role in protecting our water supply from potential contamination and significantly reduce susceptibility compared to shoreline intakes." The city's mayor told residents their drinking water is safe during an online public meeting Wednesday. The mayor noted that the city's water management services team is considering adding granulated activated carbon to its water filtration system as a "proactive measure" that's also a requirement of a grant agreement through EGLE. According to Wastewater Digest, an online publication dedicated to the municipal wastewater industry, granular activated carbon can help remove organic contaminants that produce unwanted smells or tastes from water. The meeting was open to the public and included a question-and-answer portion. One participant asked why the interim plan appeared to focus exclusively on the southern part of the North Works site. "The southern section of the perimeter is the most hydrologically connected to the river … and it's also an area of the site where we have the highest PFAS concentrations," said Shilpa Patel, acting manager for the EPA's Remediation Branch. Citing time constraints, officials only addressed a fraction of the questions submitted during the meeting but promised to post a full FAQ page addressing all the questions on the EPA's website. For the long-term comprehensive plan, government officials said BASF's next deadline is Aug. 11, when a 95% basis of design is due. The plan will "consist of perimeter barriers, a groundwater collection and extraction system and an on-site water treatment facility," according to the EPA website. The EPA will review and potentially sign off on the design before mobilization and construction begin, sometime in 2027. The plant manufactures products including polyurethanes used in carpet padding seat cushions and insulation; and specialty plastics and resins. The company is a major employer in Wyandotte, with more than 1,100 employees at the facility, according to a 2024 company fact sheet. To comply with a 1986 consent agreement between BASF and the state, the flow rate into the extraction wells must reach between 10 and 90 gallons per minute, according to EGLE's letter. EGLE's letter came after a longtime EGLE employee filed a complaint with the Michigan Attorney General's Office in October 2024, alleging his agency had known about the violations and yet allowed BASF to release hazardous waste into the Great Lakes and a "critical assessment zone" close to Wyandotte's drinking water intake system. A critical assessment zone is an area around a surface water intake deemed susceptible to contamination. The employee, Art Ostaszewski, who now works as EGLE's drone pilot coordinator, said water sampling from 2021 showed pollution high enough to kill aquatic life. The Attorney General's Office declined to pursue criminal charges against BASF in a March letter responding to Ostaszewski's complaint, saying "no recent testing has shown any danger to the water intake for the city of Wyandotte." mreinhart@detroitnews.com @max_detroitnews This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: What state and fed officials plan with BASF to stop pollution flowing into Detroit River

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State demands that BASF stop flow of pollution into Detroit River Wyandotte — State environmental regulators are demanding that BASF, an international chemical manufacturing company and major employer in Wyandotte, stop the flow of contaminated groundwater into the Detroit River, alleging the company is violating a 39-year-old consent agreement with the state. Regulators from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy have found extraction wells created by BASF to pump contaminated groundwater at the company's North Works site in Wyandotte away from the river generated fewer than 2 gallons per minute in mid-2024, while up to 60 gallons per minute flow to the river. The environmental agency wrote BASF on March 10 telling the company to take “all necessary and appropriate actions to … halt the flow of contaminated groundwater to the Detroit River.” The state and BASF entered a 1986 consent agreement in which BASF was to maintain an inward "gradient" at the site to prevent contaminated water from migrating into the river. A flow rate of between 10 and 90 gallons per minute into the extraction wells is necessary to achieve that, according to EGLE's letter. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has been the lead agency overseeing cleanup of the North Works site since the 1990s, is holding a virtual public meeting on Wednesday at 6 p.m. about the status of the cleanup. The EPA oversees the facility through the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, a federal law that governs the disposal of hazardous and solid waste. Soil at the BASF site on Biddle Avenue, which is located near Wyandotte's drinking water intake system, is polluted with mercury, PFAS, PFOS and other volatile compounds considered harmful to consume. The plant manufactures products including polyurethanes used in products such as carpet padding; seat cushions and insulation; specialty plastics and resins. The company is a major employer in Wyandotte, with more than 1,100 employees at the facility, according to a 2024 company fact sheet. The former marshland was drained and filled with chemical waste in the 1880s and has served as an industrial and manufacturing site ever since. Groundwater flows through that contaminated fill dirt and into the Detroit River just north of the Wyandotte municipal water intake. BASF declined to comment on EGLE's demand letter. The company referred to a statement on its website that it is continuing plans to construct a physical barrier along the north, east and south boundaries of the Wyandotte site, which BASF calls a "comprehensive, long-term groundwater protection measure." The design requires approval by the EPA, and BASF's website said the federal government approved a 60% design draft last November. Approval and completion are not expected to before 2027. "BASF continues to work closely with EPA and EGLE to minimize the timeline of the project, including by requesting expedited agency review," the company's website says. The company has until May 10 to respond to EGLE's finding that BASF is violating its agreement with the state. EGLE said in a statement that the department has yet to receive a response from BASF and declined to comment on what kind of enforcement actions the state may seek if deemed necessary. "At this point, we await the response before speculating about noncompliance," spokesperson Josef Greenberg wrote in an email. EGLE whistleblower But EGLE employee Art Ostaszewski feels his agency has failed to stop BASF from allowing pollution to flow into the Detroit River and Great Lakes. He filed a whistleblower complaint with the Michigan Attorney General's Office in October, alleging EGLE has known about continuous violations of the consent decree by BASF and allowed the company to release hazardous waste into the Great Lakes and a "critical assessment zone" close to Wyandotte's drinking water intake system. A critical assessment zone is an area around a surface water intake deemed susceptible to contamination. Ostaszewski, a longtime EGLE employee who's currently the department's drone pilot program coordinator, said water sampling from 2021 showed pollution high enough to kill aquatic life. "In 2021 and 2022, we did four rounds of quarterly sampling, and the results came back screaming. BASF has to meet water quality standards before their groundwater reaches the Detroit River," Ostaszewski told The News in an interview. "That's just basic." Ostaszewski made clear he is not representing EGLE in his whistleblower actions, and his statements are his own opinions based on materials and data he has reviewed. He said he first filed his allegations about BASF's actions with EGLE's law enforcement division in 2023, but he said his complaint was not taken seriously, prompting him to file the whistleblower complaint with the attorney general's office last year. The attorney general's office declined to pursue criminal charges against BASF in a March letter responding to Ostaszewski's complaint. "Thankfully, no recent testing has shown any danger to the water intake for the city of Wyandotte... There is no evidence that we found that points to criminality here," the letter read. The letter also said the attorney general's office had not found evidence of wrongdoing by EGLE's law enforcement division, and informed Ostaszewski it was closing his complaint. Danny Wimmer, a spokesperson for Attorney General Dana Nessel, declined to comment on the office's conclusions beyond the contents of its letter to Ostaszewski, reiterating the investigation "found no evidence of prosecutable criminal conduct, as much of this matter is subject to ongoing administrative/civil efforts to remediate any environmental issues." "The Attorney General takes violations of our Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act very seriously. In fact, she started the Environmental Crimes Unit to criminally address violations when the facts dictate a crime has occurred." EGLE declined to comment on the whistleblower investigation. The most recent water samples from Wyandotte's intake location, meanwhile, showed the city's drinking water is not contaminated, adding EGLE has increased monitoring "out of an abundance of caution, Greenberg, the EGLE spokesperson, wrote in an email. He wrote that steps taken to minimize human health risks from the North Works plant include monitoring, testing, exploring additional filtration at Wyandotte's water intake, and installing more wells to extract additional groundwater from the areas that have the highest contamination. "EGLE has helped fund the additional protections and is working with the city to add additional carbon filtration to its drinking water treatment system. Due to its proximity to BASF and other facilities, EGLE has worked with Wyandotte to increase monitoring of both the water coming into its drinking water plant, and the finished water leaving the water plant for distribution to residents," the statement said. "The water has consistently met all water quality standards." 1986 consent decree The state's 1986 consent decree with BASF required the well-pumping system created by the company to maintain an inward "hydraulic gradient" at the North Works site, but BASF has not successfully done that, which is one reason the agreement has lasted so long, said Scott Troia, an attorney at the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, an environmental legal advocacy organization in Michigan. He said under the agreement, BASF would have to have explicit permission to stop its well-pumping operations. "From my legal position, EGLE absolutely has the authority to go back to court and say they're not abiding by the consent decree and actions need to be taken," Troia said. The GLELC is not involved with the agreement between the state and BASF, but has heard from residents concerned about the Downriver community's pollution issues. The state's letter to BASF says groundwater contour maps generated over several years "show a consistent outward gradient toward the Detroit River" and the pumping system "is not achieving the inward gradients sufficient to halt the flow of contaminated water to the Detroit River." Brian O'Mara, a Metro Detroit-based hydrogeologist with experience in industrial waste cleanups who owns a consulting company, doesn't believe the company needs several more years to construct a solution to stop contaminated groundwater from entering the Detroit River. He said BASF has other options, such as creating more wells, or renting a water treatment system while the company finalizes the permanent perimeter barrier. "It's a big site, yes, but you could just put more wells out there, and you pump more water, and you will control it. It's not like putting a man on the moon," said O'Mara, who did an independent review for the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center of BASF's 60% barrier design plan. Michigan State Rep. Rylee Linting, a Republican who represents the 27th District that includes Wyandotte, said in a statement she is keeping an eye on the site's cleanup situation and is interested to hear more at Wednesday's EPA meeting. She said companies have a responsibility not to pollute communities they operate in. "No one wants the places they call home to be turned into toxic waste dumps or see their drinking water threatened by contamination. Companies have a responsibility to make sure that doesn’t happen and the state has a responsibility to protect communities and families," Linting said in a statement. "Because of these fundamental elements, I am hopeful BASF’s continued remediation efforts can work hand in hand with EGLE’s work to provide transparency and solutions for people I represent." Ostaszewski's complaint made four requests: That the attorney general's office compel the EGLE's law enforcement division to pursue criminal enforcement and penalties against BASF within 90 days; that the state establish a public information portal about the status of BASF's actions to contain groundwater flow; enforce standards of critical assessment zones throughout Michigan; and for the attorney general's office to compel EGLE to establish a formal avenue for whistleblower complaints from within. The letter from the attorney general's office closing Ostaszewski's complaint said their conclusions don't bar other administrative remedies or future criminal charges if warranted by additional facts. "The state needs to set a deadline for the community," Ostaszewski said. "But right now, as we're talking ... 3,400 gallons of toxic waste has left BASF, and that's an EGLE calculation. And nowhere else in the Great Lakes do we know about something like that." jcardi@detroitnews.com This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: State demands that BASF stop flow of pollution into Detroit River

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Runoff of phosphorus from street paint can be seen from space.
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Ecorse weighs cuts as it risks running out of money by month's end The city's $1.2 million in unrestricted general funds could be spent by end of April. Possible cuts include laying off employees, turning off streetlights.

The small #downrivermichigan city of #Ecorse has a long history of financial straits. It's trying to utilize its access to the #DetroitRiver to change things, but for now .... @detroitnews.bsky.social www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

🌊 Did you know? The tunnel reaches about 75 feet below the surface of the #DetroitRiver at its deepest point.

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