The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-10
Cousewoy
Possible, Officials Soy
Authority Members. County and City
Leaders Hold First Joint Conference

sion only when the proposal 10
cross Anchor Bay with a cause
way was injected into the pro-
CeedingS.
They definitely conceded
that there would be opposition
TO the causeway project by the
residents, both summer and
winter, of the Anchor Bay shore
line and those of the St. Clair
Flats, the birdfoot delta of the
ST Clair river extending out
into Lake ST. Clair from Algon-
&C. Boatmen, ii was pointed out
would resent the causeway re-
CARELESS of the fact that pro-
vision would be made for small
boats of al types to pass through
or under the belt line across the
bay. Ed Dubay, veteran local
boatman supported that conten-
ton. A. ID. Brewer, secretary of
the Board of Commerce declared
that residents of the Bay area
would resent the intrusion of
the cauSeway and the patronage
of the beaches that the author
ity plans to establish bordering
II trespasS upon the privacy
that they invested their money
to secure. He also declared that
the causeWay would be resented
on the basis that it would mar
the natural beauty of the Bay.
BOGEY RAISED
Then the secretary raised the
DOGGY of the projected extension
of the st. Lawrence "lakes-to-
sea" waterway to the Clinton
river as another consideration TO
be faced by the planners.
Rosso was Of the opinion that
the authority would be doing
well and economically to &C
quire land on Point Huron just
south Of the mouth of the river
and fronted with a good, sandy
beach for a distance of about
mile, as good substitute for
the beach facilities that could be
provided along a causeway of
the type proposed.
He revealed that some rs
acres of state land and about
$50 acres of privately owned
land, in the st. Clair Haven area
on the point could probably be
acquired for a nominal sum.
The private land, he said, is the
property of George Hovey,
wealthy Detroit candy man. He
deClared-and others supported
the statement-that there are
probably from $50 acres to $50
acres of undeveloped or only
semi-developed land on the
Point that would be ideally
suited for recreational purposes
along the line of that served by
the Long Island state parks. He
continued to say that, in the
event that the beach available
was not sufficient, a causeway
could be built out into the lake
for a mile or two instead of
being run out across Anchor
Bay to the Perch Point-Pearl
Beach area.
Rosso was especially familiar
with the facilities alongshore
from his long residence and SUI
pervision in Harrison township
which he represents on the
county board of supervisors and
which includes all of the land
that was under discussion.
Representatives of the Au-
thority pointed out that it had
been planned to carry the cause
way out across the bay from
above the Clinton River owing
to the contamination of that
stream by Mount Clemens and
other sewage. 1t was also point
ed out by them that even f
sewage disposal of some other
type is provided to clean up the
stream, it will still bring down
enough silt with it to make bath
ing unpleasant to the south of it
in times of high water.
Rosso and others retorted
that the south side of Huron
Point where the proposed beach
site lie located jS tOD far ipdopf