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October 16, 2026

Michigan communities invest millions in their rivers

  • The state has announced $89 million for cleanup projects.
    • By LAURA HERBERG
    Bridge Michigan

    On a recent sunny fall morning, a couple dozen people paddled in bright-colored kayaks past factories, a docked freighter and miniature mountains of industrial materials on southeast Michigan's Lower Rouge River.

    “This is really exciting to have this many people out here kayaking the Rouge because, when I was a kid, the Rouge was so dirty they told you, ‘Don't touch it,'” said Sally Petrella, watershed ecologist with Friends of the Rouge, which organized the paddling event.


     
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