How deep is the river? Would you like to see it drained if it were possible and see whats down there, even if you have to dig through the bottom a little?
How deep is the river? Would you like to see it drained if it were possible and see whats down there, even if you have to dig through the bottom a little?
That question is ... deep.
Google is your friend.
http://www.oceangrafix.com/o.g/Chart...oit-River.html
Average 30-40 ft.
Would I want to see what's down there?
Ewwwwww.
Uh, no.
You made my day. I thank you.
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"...Would you like to see it drained if it were possible and see whats down there, even if you have to dig through the bottom a little?..."
No. I would, however, like to go back in a time machine to see how beautiful and wild it looked before the Europeans ruined it.
Nice encouragement without explicitly embarrassing. Funny as well.
That is really funny!
The amount of muck and sediment on the bottom is probably deeper than the total depth of the water.
I would love to see what is down there. Wish they would dredge the whole thing and bring up all the old stuff.
There is miles of fishing line hooked on the rocks at the bottom as well as old cars from the twenties and thirties when they used to run rum from Canada. They drove on the ice and a lot of them didn't make it, so there's also a lot of old booze down there.
I have seen great globs of fishing line in Lake St Clair. Perhaps someone can explain what causes it to weave itself together like that.
I have heard stories of boaters finding old wrecks from the rum running days, but have never seen any. It would be very interesting to sample some old Canadian Liquor from back then!
My parents, who grew up near Belle Isle, told of the night that someone fired shots at them while they were out in a rowboat one evening. They suspected that it was smugglers who thought they were competition.
Theres a couple thousand pairs of cement shoes.
It ranges between five feet or less in parts of the Scott Middle Ground between Belle Isle and the mainland to 45 or so feet in its deepest parts. The dregged shipping channel
is kept at about 28 feet deep.
Even with all of the pollution [[which, BTW, is MUCH less than it was even a few decades ago and definitely during Detroit's 'glory' years when old pictures show the river to have been dark grey in color), the river is still comparitvely blue for the simple fact that it's more a fast-moving straight than a slow, muddy river. One of the first things people from other river cities remark on when I've brought them to the river is how blue it is compared to their's.
Detroitnerd, that was understated, funny and more than a little spooky.
No doubt some amazing artifacts would be down there well preserved in the mud and slime.
Remember the Montrose. That should tell you how deep the river isn't.
lol that was funny.....
That 28 foot shipping channel and shallow Lake St. Clair are a precarious choke point in the Great Lakes System. In comparison the Mississippi is 200 feet deep [[the maximum) at New Orleans!
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