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To the Rescue!
Friends of the Rouge
Freep op-ed by @detroitaudubon. Join Friends of the Rouge on January 25th for Rain Gardens 101 to learn how to help birds by adding native plants to your yard with a rain garden. Learn more at therouge.org/lawnstolife/
Birds are disappearing. Here's what we can do about it. | Opinion
www.freep.com
It's time for Detroit to minimize bird-building collisions.Dirty hands. Smiling faces. Clean Water! Sign up NOW for the Winter 2020 Master Rain Gardener Training Program, on Saturday mornings starting mid-February in Livonia.
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Clean water, great lakes! Help bees, birds, and butterflies! Fight flooding and pollution!Shameful this has not been cleaned up and has now collapsed into the Detroit River.
Report: Site contaminated with uranium partially collapses into Detroit River
www.crainsdetroit.com
A riverfront property in Detroit listed for decades as a contaminated site due to its use of uranium and other dangerous chemicals during manufacturing dating to the 1940s has partially collapsed into...An early Christmas present for downriver and Ohio.
Terrible. Just terrible.
I’m sure the bankruptcy court set aside $100 to pay for it.
Is there any water in Michigan that isn't contaminated?
No picture here! Slow working.
On the bright side.. now the fish will glow..
ProPublica please take note.
"no residual radiation". Those words were in the middle of the article, and if true, perhaps deflates at least some of the incredible scariness of the headline? Also, I had no idea that uranium was extruded here in Detroit as part of the Manhattan Project. That ended, in a most horrific way, WWII. We are experiencing literal fallout from that project here in Detroit more than 70 years later, so a miserable "wow" on that point. Plenty of blame to go around, including the Nazis who started WWII that eventually made the Manhattan Project considered necessary. Nuances buried in the article, and history aside, Water is Life. We have learned much about needing to treat our rivers as if our lives depend on them, because our lives do depend on them. But we have so much more to learn. Thanks to FOTR for the great work they do.
Wonderful! Always a great idea to store hazardous waste on the shores of waterways. People in our society are so fucking ignorant and idiotic.
Detroit and state politicians would rather divert taxes to developers than bother with the health and safety of citizens and the ecosystem.
City run ,useless people,but everyone gets paid
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Volunteer to Make a Difference
Friends of the Rouge began as a volunteer organization, so volunteerism sits at the core of mission to serve the Rouge River watershed.
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Be part of the legacy. Support the vital work we do by helping us meet critical milestones for programs that make a lasting impact of the Rouge River watershed’s health.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Get involved! Support our diverse programs through sponsorships that have the power to make real and lasting change for the health of the Rouge River watershed!
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Our community stakeholders, partners, and alliances make our watershed healthier! Thank you to all who make a difference by caring about the Rouge River.
Financial Transparency
We adhere to all federal and state regulations, produce annual financial audits, submit all reporting documents in a timely manner with clear accounting methods and record keeping.
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