Evaporite Cycles and Lithofacies in Lucas Formation, Detroit River Group, Devonian, Midland, Michigan1

1977 ◽  
pp. 73-91 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detroit River

Drinking Water Surveillance Program in the St. Clair-Detroit River Area 1985/86

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.J. Roberts ◽  
R.B. Hunsinger ◽  
A.H. Vajdic
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Surveillance Program ◽  
Sampling Protocol ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
Water Treatment Plants

Abstract The Drinking Water Surveillance Program (DWSP), developed by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, is an assessment project based on standardized analytical and sampling protocol. This program was recently instituted in response to a series of contaminant occurrences in the St. Clair-Detroit River area of Southwestern Ontario. This paper outlines the details and goals of the program and provides information concerning micro-contaminants in drinking water at seven drinking water treatment plants in Southwestern Ontario.

Measured and Modelled Chlorinated Contaminant Distributions in the St. Clair River Water

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.H. Chan ◽  
Y.L. Lau ◽  
B.G. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
River Water ◽  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Concentration Distribution ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Concentration Profiles ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
Chemical Partitioning ◽  
Transverse Mixing

Abstract The concentration distribution of hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD), pentachloro-benzene (QCB), hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and octachlorostyrene (OCS) in water samples from transects across the upper and lower St. Clair River and the upper Detroit River were determined on four occasions in 1985. The data show a plume of these contaminants from the Sarnia industrial area. The fluxes and concentration profiles of the contaminants at Port Lambton have been modelled success fully using a simple transverse mixing model. A study on the chemical partitioning between the “dissolved” and “suspended sediment” phases shows that an important contaminant fraction is carried in the river by the suspended solids, particularly for lipophilie compounds such as HCB and OCS,

Closure to the Detroit River Tunnel

1911 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-374
Author(s):  
Wilson Sherman Kinnear
Keyword(s):  
Detroit River

Evidence of Lake Whitefish Spawning in the Detroit River: Implications for Habitat and Population Recovery

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward F. Roseman ◽  
Gregory W. Kennedy ◽  
James Boase ◽  
Bruce A. Manny ◽  
Thomas N. Todd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Recovery ◽  
Lake Whitefish ◽  
Detroit River

Organic contaminants in submersed macrophytes drifting in the Detroit River

1997 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 2417-2427 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Lovett-Doust ◽  
L Lovett-Doust ◽  
M Biernacki ◽  
T K Mal ◽  
R Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Organic Contaminants ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
Terrestrial Plants ◽  
Plant Debris ◽  
Western Basin ◽  
Submersed Macrophytes ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
Significant Burden ◽  
Aquatic Food ◽  
Time Of Year

Macrophytes drifting in the Detroit River were sampled and analysed for contaminants at monthly intervals from September 1990 to September 1991. Twelve species of submersed macrophytes were identified, as well as algae and leaves of terrestrial plants. Drifting plant debris was greatest in August-September, when Potamogeton spp. and Najas sp. predominated. Over the study period, a total of 60.57 times 106 kg fresh mass (3.0285 times 106 kg ash-free dry mass) of plant debris drifted out of Lake St. Clair into the Detroit River annually. Organochlorine content differed between plant taxa and according to the time of year. Annual contaminant burden of the Detroit River by upriver contributions was carried mostly by Potamogeton spp. and Najas sp. Total annual load of organochlorines in drifting plant debris was estimated to be 155 g, including 124 g of PCBs. These bioavailable contaminants may enter the detrital compartment of aquatic food webs, following plant senescence, or may be taken up directly by herbivores. Contaminants associated with plant debris drifting from Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River contribute a significant burden of bioavailable organic contaminants to the western basin of Lake Erie.

scholarly journals “Buoyant Cartographies”: Strata-Mapping the Detroit River Border

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Taien Ng-Chan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
City Image ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
Border Zones ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
A Site ◽  
International Border

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In the early days of September 2018, a group of artists and researchers converged on the Detroit River (an international border between Detroit, Michigan, USA and Windsor, Ontario, Canada) to investigate the “Buoyant Cartographies” that this particular site demanded. As one of the parties involved in this participatory event (along with Lead Investigators <i>In/Terminus Creative Research Group</i> and <i>Float School</i>), my artist-research collective Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU) undertook an experimental mapping project that investigated the different “strata” of the place and the development of a “city-image.” The HPU Strata-Walk is an experimental and performative mapping methodology that focuses on how spatial meaning is created through a “stratigraphic” sensing of a site. The Detroit-Windsor border makes an especially compelling site for a Strata-Walk, in light of the conflicts over borders and walls in the current political environment, which presents an urgent need towards understanding and envisioning alternate possibilities for border zones. As a material site and geo-political space, the Detroit River border particularly benefits from intermedial investigations into spatial meanings and their construction. Notably, the role of folklore and local narratives on the internet and social media (and the erasure of Indigenous knowledge) figures large in developing one's knowledge of place. Experimental cartographies can thus help to develop alternate ways of seeing such sites.</p><p>This presentation is an attempt to trace this particular event of “discovery,” an account of how a place becomes known and how intermedial practices influence the manifestation of space and experience. Inherent in this research is the overarching question of how one begins to decolonize public narratives of place, how gaps and erasures in knowledge can be located in order to demarcate a way forward for further study and action. With these concerns in mind, I conduct a preliminary analysis of the border site through the activities of the HPU and our specific “strata-walking” framework, which focuses on different approaches of mapping-as-process, from phenomenological, ethnographic and cultural landscape reading methodologies to networked, social and digital media research. This performative mapping can shape individual experiences of the border through the revealing of complex networks, flows, and narratives, and point to fissures where alternative imaginings might be possible. I will first begin with a brief introduction to the HPU’s methodologies, before situating them in a survey of relevant literatures around experimental and critical processes of mapping. Then, using photographic and textual documentation, I delve into some very preliminary results of the investigation, focusing on touristic experiences of border crossing as well as a look at the specific “imageability” of Peche Island in the Detroit River, a place of rumour and mystery, now a nature park maintained by the city of Windsor. The overall goal will be to demonstrate the necessity of experimental cartographies in the creation of alternate experiences and more reflexive narratives about the border zone, with the Detroit-Windsor border as a case study.</p>

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