This website is dedicated to advancing the idea of returning rapids to the Grand for everyone’s enjoyment. You don’t need to be a rafter, kayaker or fisherman to enjoy a safer, more natural, healthy and dynamic river.
Art Prize Paddle Event
Art Prize Paddle in the Grand. It’s a Nessie Float. This Sunday, paddles wet at 2:00 pm. Be at Ah-Nab-Awen Park early, early to off load your sea, recreational or whitewater kayak, canoe or raft. We’ll watch your stuff while you park your car down river at the Amtrak over flow lot on the SW corner off Market and Wealthy. We’ll all figure out the shuttle. No worries. Rain or shine. Tell everyone, spread the word.
Edit; We may change the take out. A decision will be made at a later time. Wear foot protection!
GVSU Sports Marketing Class Projects
Check out these fun and informative videos made by Mr John Rumery’s summer term Sports Marketing 361 class. It’s wonderful to see the youth getting involved with this historic project. Put the rapids back in the Grand!
Rapids in the Grand Next?
They are installing rapids right now in Chesaning, MI on the Shiawassee River. “This project is sort of like a template for the entire state, maybe even the entire country. It’s the largest one we’ve got in the state of Michigan,” Kahn said. Read the rest of this entry »
East Side Gets It.
- Chris Fryer | The Saginaw News
Pete’s Contracting excavator operator Aaron VandenBos of Falmouth moves rocks into place as part of a project involving the construction of nine rock barriers that decline down river to create a flow of rapids where the Chesaning Dam used to exist in the Shiawassee River next to Cole Park in Chesaning. The projected completion date is Sept. 23.
As reported by the Saginaw News, Chesaning MI is getting whitewater as you read this.
A $1.3 million improvement project on the Shiawassee River in Chesaning could lure kayakers and walleye. In the meantime, the work is attracting spectators.
“This is going to be great for fishing,” said Tithof, who has 11 grandchildren. “We all fish here. Everybody brings their grandkids down here.”
Good Clean Fun In The City
This is video from an artificial whitewater park in Golden, Colorado. The waves are man made. They look and behave naturally. By removing the dangerous and unsightly lowhead dams down stream of the fishing dam on our Grand River, we have room for several of these beautiful features. Imagine rapids in the Grand for Grand Rapids.
Grand River Whitewater Park Preferred Alternative
Download an updated version of the Green Grand Rapids, Special Study Grand River Whitewater Park Preferred Alternative, prepared for the City of Grand Rapids. (It’s a large file, so be patient — it’s worth the wait!)
This report investigates the benefits and challenges of a whitewater park in Grand Rapids.
Sturgeon Moon
Sturgeon Moon - August
You know by now, we’re big sturgeon fans. The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water were most readily caught during this month. Check out Sturgeon For Tomorrow http://www.sturgeonfortomorrow.org/
Let’s Face It
Do you prefer this cascading waterfall?
Conceptual photograph of 'landscaped' 4th St dam.
Or this lowhead dam?
Existing dam, known by river experts as a 'drowning machine.'
Could Grand Rapids’ benefit from a picturesque new tourist attraction? A wild, scenic, cascading waterfall right downtown? It’s known by several names; The 6th Street Dam, 4th St. Dam, Fishing Dam and even The Falls. Read the rest of this entry »
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National Weather Service, River Observations- Observation - GDRM4 - Grand River at Grand Rapids (Michigan)Flood Stage: 18.0 ft Latest Observation: 6.25 ft Observation Time: Mar 11, 2010 09:00 AM EST AHPS Hydrologic Service Area Homepage: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=grr
- Observation - GDRM4 - Grand River at Grand Rapids (Michigan)
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Sponsors
The following sponsors advocate the health of the Grand River and the fiscally-responsible research and creation of this project.
