Detroit's Tricentennial Park expansion to demonstrate stormwater runoff treatment

Detroit's Tricentennial State Park and Harbor is expanding from nine acres to 31, and its next phase of development will develop a wetlands habitat that will be used to demonstrate stormwater treatment.

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The Lowland Park Parcel will be returned to wetlands that will be used to demonstrate stormwater runoff treatment. Vicki Anthes, planning section chief of the DNR's parks and recreation division explains, "We want to show how you can treat runoff without sending it to a treatment plant." Beyond the interpretive elements associated with the wetland, Lowland Park will include bike and pedestrian paths that will connect to the DRC's RiverWalk.

Ron Olson, chief of DNR's parks and recreation division says that, to Tricentennial Park, the agency hopes "to bring elements of State Parks and Recreation Areas across the state. We want to take elements of those features and encase them within this park even though it is small."

He goes on to say that, "This is also an entry point get urban folks interested in the out-of-doors, as gateway to go to other parks in the state. It is also a key piece of the riverfront revitalization."

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