Disaster under Lake Huron.(tunnel explosion)

Michigan History Magazine | March 1, 2005| | Copyright

At 3:11 p.m. on Saturday, December 11, 1971, an explosion ripped through the six-mile-long tunnel under construction beneath Lake Huron, just north of Port Huron. The tunnel was intended for use by the water treatment plant being built by the Detroit Metropolitan Water Services (now the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, DWSD).

The history of Port Huron is inextricably linked to Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes. The big lake is temperamental, and no one is surprised when she flexes her muscles, as she did in November 1966 when the Daniel J. Morrell sank in a ...

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