Detroit River fish taste better, safe to eat says Windsor Star

[DetroitPlanner]

Oh..............

Outstate, Engler used to use the kids to help haul the timber out of state forest logging camps or for bear bait. honest!

[Honky Tonk]

Outstate, Engler used to use the kids to help haul the timber out of state forest logging camps or for bear bait. honest!

Sounds like a State Jobs Skill program.

[aj3647]

The water in the Detroit River was in Lake St. Clair an hour ago and in Lake Huron a few weeks before that. It's the sediment where most pollutants are coming from, and unless it's being disrupted there's little contamination in the actual water.

Lake Huron has its own watershed. The Detroit River is part of the Lake Erie watershed. As such, it has different tributaries flowing into it and it's drawing groundwater and surface flows from a completely different geographical area.

So what is the Detroit River getting that Lake Huron isn't? Basically all of the pollution from the heavy industry located in Metro Detroit and the agricultural pollution from Southern Ontario. Ask yourself why Lake Erie has a very serious algal bloom problem but Lake Huron does not.

[Danny]

No way I'm not eating some three eyed fish from the Detroit River. We already pollute it with pet coke, mercury, PCP and raw sewage.