First step in restoring the Grand River’s whitewater underway as dive teams relocate endangered Snuffbox Mussels

Steve Heacock: Well, what we were going to do is organize the rocks so that, and it wasn’t a set-aside area, it was in a specific area. We put some rocks together, and these engineers are so amazing that they can create this hill underneath the water that makes a wave occur, and they can tell you exactly how big that wave’s going to be, how it’s going to run, what it’s going to look like, and whether or not it serves the needs of the recreational users. And so, there were going to be in the lower reach, and that’s really all we’re talking about right now. the Lower East, so the space from Bridge Street to Fulton Street. In that run, there were going to be four of these waves. And it wasn’t like we were channeling them out or anything. You know, they’re in the river. They’re in the regular river. It’s just that part of the structure and part of what we’re putting back in would be organized to create these waves, these recreation waves. And yeah, they were going to be, I mean, we would have never hosted an Olympics here, but certainly people would have come and trained here. And there would have been that kind of use. They were substantial.

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