Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 645 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 12:52 pm: | |
While looking at the State Fair area on google maps, I went south a bit and came across these two large ponds bordered by Dequindre, Modern, St Aubin, and the Davison. anybody have any info on what these 2 ponds are/were for? they look rather large and are near perfect rectangles. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&q=detroit,+mi &sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=3 8.554089,79.277344&ie=UTF8&t=h &ll=42.412447,-83.079836&spn=0 .008412,0.027509&z=16&iwloc=ad dr |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3733 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 12:54 pm: | |
Highland Park water reservoir. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3750 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 12:56 pm: | |
Highland Park is one of the few municipalities with its own water system. We can thank master-control-freak Henry Ford for that (and, for that matter, for the existence of Highland Park in the first place). |
Kryptonite Member Username: Kryptonite
Post Number: 4 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 12:57 pm: | |
god, how strange. I would be interested in finding out what they are also. I wonder if it would have to do with a brownfield clean up? It's definitely not for growing rice or cranberries. ha! |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 646 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 1:00 pm: | |
WOW talk about a quick response! They look like an urban oasis. Out of curiosity, does Highland Park still use the water, now that they are broke and under state receivership? I would imagine running and securing your own water system would be rather pricey. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3753 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 1:09 pm: | |
They want to privatize it. That way, one of the poorest (if not THE poorest) communities in Michigan will have to pay a private company for their drinking water. Nice, isn't it? |
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk
Post Number: 434 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 1:16 pm: | |
It never seemed very secure to me. Dequindre runs right along side of it |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3754 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 1:18 pm: | |
I've heard of kids going for a dip in it. |
Wanderinglady Member Username: Wanderinglady
Post Number: 200 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 2:14 pm: | |
I spent the first six years of my life living a couple of blocks from these reservoirs. I haven't thought about these in years! I always heard from my older siblings that kids would swim in it (seconding Detroitnerd). The neighborhood is so decimated -- can't believe that there were blocks full of houses with families in that area, as well as businesses, not that long ago... |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3735 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 2:58 pm: | |
Perhaps a private firm could operate the water system more efficiently and cheaper than the city could, saving a desperately broke community much needed money? The security of the reservoirs is probably not an issue. The water held there is upstream of the treatment process and the quantities of contaminates needed to effect the consumers would be so large as to make it difficult to go unnoticed. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3756 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 3:18 pm: | |
They always privatize the stuff for poor people, because middle-class people know better and kick up a fuss. |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 2143 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 3:49 pm: | |
Hey, these guys have never had a problem with the HP water
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Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3760 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 4:14 pm: | |
Hey, those are the Country Bob and the Bloodfarmers boys! |
Ddaydave Member Username: Ddaydave
Post Number: 603 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 10:55 pm: | |
Country Bob and the Bloodfarmers are playing at the stone house saturdaynight |
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy
Post Number: 339 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 2:18 am: | |
"The neighborhood is so decimated -- can't believe that there were blocks full of houses with families in that area, as well as businesses, not that long ago..." Must not be that decimated...Bobby Ferguson just built a ton of street corners in that neighborhood. Some blocks have only five or six houses. Several don't even have sidewalks on the side-streets. As for that recent stop sign on Dequindre at the church accross from the ponds, whose idea was that, and has anyone ever actually stopped? |
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1581 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:23 am: | |
http://www.highlandparkcity.us /Services/Docs/2007WaterReport .pdf |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 2526 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:55 pm: | |
Highland Park still had water during the 2003 blackout because of the their independent system. go figure. |
Swimmaven Member Username: Swimmaven
Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 4:51 pm: | |
MikeM says, "Perhaps a private firm could operate the water system more efficiently and cheaper than the city could, saving a desperately broke community much needed money? The security of the reservoirs is probably not an issue. The water held there is upstream of the treatment process and the quantities of contaminates needed to effect the consumers would be so large as to make it difficult to go unnoticed." I think we have seen how private firms do not make anything cheaper. And any water source should be secure. Although I think kids swimming in it would not count as a contaminate! |