Chesterfield Township is in the midst of making its own little portion of the planet a better place for fish, waterfowl and families, via shoreline restoration at Brandenburg Park.
Brandenburg Park, located on Jefferson Avenue, a quarter-mile south of 23 Mile Road, on the shore of Lake St. Clair, will be closed through May 31, 2021 for construction. The closure began in late October.
âWe got special permission to start early,â Chesterfield Township Operations and Facilities Director Josh Sonnenberg said, of construction. âWe left the park open as long as we could before we had to close.â
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âThe park needed to shut down because of the scope and size of the shoreline restoration project,â added Chesterfield Township Supervisor Dani Acciavatti. âWe will use this as an opportunity, while it is shut down, to improve as many other amenities as we can.â
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CHICAGO With the Earth on track to finish out another year among the warmest on record and the impact of climate change mounting around the globe, advocates around the Great Lakes are looking ahead to what a new administration could mean for the Midwest, the region containing one of the world’s largest freshwater sources.
Much is at stake when it comes to the Great Lakes region. Warming temperatures and more precipitation can mean more flooding. Shoreline protections are up against rising lake levels and million-dollar damage storms. Invasive species threaten to upend ecosystems and toxic algae blooms are intensifying. Human health is at risk if water quality tak