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.
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.
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.
Nice encouragement without explicitly embarrassing. Funny as well.
"The first settlers had no need for wells engines pumps or reservoirs. The water along the shore was not defiled by sewers and refuse from shop and factory. Instead of containing impurities it washed and whitened the sandy beach and was everywhere as clear as a diamond." ~ Silas Farmer
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.
That is really funny!
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.....
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