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The MOST POLLUTED Zip Code In Michigan: Oakwood Heights & Boynton Neighborhoods, Detroit 5K.
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
- In 1930, the Aurora Gas Company built an oil refinery in Southwest Detroit. Today it's owned by the Marathon Patroleum Company, and the refinery is one of the 48217 zip codes biggest culprits, helping it become the most polluted zip code in Michigan for decades. The Oakwood Heights neighborhood is nearly.
0:00 - 0:45 - Intro
Marathon Oil Refinery & Oakwood Heights Neighborhood: 0:45 - 15:20
Carbon Works & Delray: 15:20 - 19:28
Boynton Neighborhood: 19:28 - 32:34
Conclusion: 32:34 - 33:20
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Marathon Oil Refinery & Oakwood Heights Neighborhood: 0:45 - 15:20
Carbon Works & Delray: 15:20 - 19:28
Boynton Neighborhood: 19:28 - 32:34
Conclusion: 32:34 - 33:20
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I have no clue why I'm watching this I'm not from Detroit and never been there and don't have any desire to go there I don't even live in Michigan but I have been across the upper peninsula and down 75 to flint quite a number of times to pick up vehicles and deliver them to different places in the United States for testing
After seeing the terrific River Rouge video I wanted to see what is next door. I was not disappointed. The drone work is not just top notch, it is essential to understand what has so hurt this area. What an incredible narration! The street work is almost head spinning in demonstrating relatively nice neat areas just a block or two from marked abdonment and garbage dumps. The amazing care and detail illuminate in a comprehensible way what went so wrong..
I was raised in Lincoln Park. Worked at Clark St assembly Cadillac plant until 1987. I moved to Detroit off of Mcgraw. I saw the house I lived in on your Springwells video. I have lived in Tennessee. Since 1989. Great job and so well put together. Two thumbs up!!
My grandparents were one of the first to build in melvindale back in 1950. Dad and I used to go for leisure drives in the industrial areas and this video took me right back to being a child in the passenger seat with him telling me about the various plants and factories. Thank you for this video, I would love to see your take on a trip down the rouge river on a boat. Keep up the good work.
Great video.
I grew up not to far from there in nearby Ecorse and River Rouge @32:50. I used to spend summers with my dad in the Boyton neighborhood around mark @29:25 . Most people there never called the neighborhood by its proper name. We typically refer to the area by its cross streets like Fort and Schaefer or Fort and Visger etc...
Fun fact: You will be surprised at the number of Detroiters I've met from the East and West Sides that don't know that Detroit city limits go south of the Rouge River. Many people equate SW Detroit with just Mexicantown.
Totally agree.. I went to a city-wide middle school for my 8th grade yr. A lot of my fellow students had no idea about this neighborhood, let alone the Downriver communities..
@@varner313 People just start hearing about that part of SW Detroit, Ecorse, and River Rouge because of the BMF Series on Starz.
Facts, I moved south and met a lot of Detroiters and we always referred to the two main roads as to where we’re from. I wouldn’t change coming from Detroit one bit! I used to go to parties in sw industrial district! Fun times
Me too I grew up in river rouge
I grew up in Melvindale back in the 1950's. I remember when Aurora caught fire. Melvindale and the surrounding area's where evacuated. Police cars drove down residential streets, notifying residents over loud speakers( bull horns) to leave. Quite exciting for a very young boy. I have enjoyed your series on Detroit. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, and that’s a cool memory to have!
This is the neighborhood I grew up in. I had to travel over the fort st bridge to get to Southwestern High. I remember the awful smell that would be In the air.
My Mom died of cancer and I know we were never warned about Marathon ( about 1 mile from my house). We had no idea that there were so many chemicals in the air and we just got used to that awful smell.
One of our first rentals was on Edsel St. I stayed there for a week to work on the house and got to know some of the neighbors. They were actually really nice people and welcoming to someone fixing up a house on the street.
Love taking your tours especially Detroit, not much of us here anymore but I'm still proud to be born there . My family worked at Ford and my dad worked in hamtramic, if I spelled it correctly, keep up the great tours⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏆🇺🇸👍🤛🤜
Thanks, and will do!
We’re everywhere Davey!
I grew up on Patricia street. The house I grew up in was torn down. I went to school at Mark Twain. It’s crazy how much has changed
Great video bruh! Lots of good information here!
When we moved into the Oakwood neighborhood in early 1960, it wasn't bad. Most people took care of their property, but as the years went by, it got worse and worse. Crack houses, etc. We moved out in late 1969 when it was just beginning to slip. Continued to stay connected with people there until the Marathon buy-out. My ages then were 10 to 20. Sounds like a prison sentence but I have a ton of memories!
THIS is my neighborhood. Going down Electric, had you not turned left on Visger and kept straight, you would have driven right past my old house. Liebold is pronounced LEEBOLD. I have to save this video because these are the streets I grew up on. To the right of visger & Electric was a record store called Shake it Well records and the building to the left, that had the pollution mural was Downriver Lounge. Boynton School was on Fort St and on Fort St between visger and Francis is/ was my old church Greater Bethlehem Baptist. What a beautiful tour of my old neighborhood. Thank you for the memories and the update.
That ball shaped tank was indeed a Detroit Tiger baseball for as long as I knew it. Marathon was also the biggest sponsor for the Tigers and was constantly mentioned by George Kell, the voice of the Tigers. I never hung out in any of the areas you drove thru here. There just wasn't any reason to go there. All the downriver area was looked down upon by the suburbs to the north, north east and west. Melvindale, Ecorse and River Rouge were then looked down upon from the other downriver towns like Allen Park, Lincoln Park and Wyandotte. I had friends in all those and did hang out there quite a bit especially Captain Ahab's in Wyandotte.
Hi Chris, already watched your entire Detroit series, even though I regularly drive through many areas of Detroit for work, I always find myself watching these videos. Great series.
Thanks, appreciate the kind words
Wow, I learned a lot. You were not far from where I use to live over 20 years ago. It was nice to see some of the old neighborhoods. I use to ride my bike in some of the areas you showed when I was a kid. I didn't know anything about the pollution there.
I did maintenance for Detroit Salt. Its was pretty cool going in the mine and checking all the stuff out. I was a contractor for Shrader Tire and Oil which is also down there.
I grew up on Liebold street in SW Detroit. In the 60’s and 70’s it was a great place to grow up despite the pollution. Our home is still standing but half of the houses on our block are gone. I have many relatives who still call the area home. They are happy to live there and don’t want to leave. Thanks for the video, I wish you would have interviewed some of people who have chosen to continue to live there. Keep the videos coming.
lived in detroit for 3 years in the late 2000s, in my very early 20's. one year in lafayette towers, the other two renting a room in a lone house in brush park. couldn't believe how much that neighborhood has changed when i visited again last year.
one of my favorite pastimes was just driving around - including the industrial areas around river rouge. erik wollo and william orbit were my soundtrack. i don't think i've explored any other city as much as i did detroit, since.
Hindsight is 20/20, and it's easy for someone in 2021 to be sanctimonious about things that weren't known 90 years earlier. For all your bashing of Marathon, I'm sure they pay a significant amount of taxes to the city of Detroit, and you'd be lamenting the economic impact if they closed the refinery. Buying out houses in semi-abandoned neighborhoods and converting the areas to green space strikes me like a pretty cost-effective approach to solving the problem.
Every convenience in modern life wouldn't be possible without petroleum.
I think that's an excellent idea too. Those old houses themselves were a hazard, with asbestos and lead even mold if they weren't properly maintained, and they weren't. The City gave up on that area as far as roads, etc. Most of the time the streetlights were burnt out and not repaired.
Thanks for posting this! My first apartment was in Oakwood Heights- 200 Colonial street; near the bridge-
A cheap, affordable and fitting neighborhood for an alcoholic punk rocker in the early 90s!
It's a shame that neighbourhoods like this have to be destroyed. But it makes sense, we've done this in some neighbourhoods too close to polluting industries in Norway too. It's pretty normal to create a buffer zone between housing and industry now.
Love the oil refineries around Toledo and Detroit. And yes I remember the baseball. Feels like home.
the original fort street bridge was built in the 1920's. This bridge you showed is probably only 8 years old or so and has had more problems then the original bridge.
Good catch.
Also as a sidenote, that was the bridge where several people were massacred during the attempted unionization of the Ford Rouge Plant- I used to live literally a stones throw away, on the west side of the river on the first side street on the north side, 200 Colonial. It was a BEAUTIFUL Brick apartment building built in the 1920s- it had a "Murphy Kitchen"- a stove, sink and refrigerator that was hidden behind 2 doors, had an extra "Murphy Bed" in the living room, and a spacious bedroom in the back.
Hello from Rockford, IL. THANK YOU FOR SHARING AND THE APPRECIATION
Well since you ended this series, I’m celebrating it by starting over at video 1.
Thanks for the reality check.our State and Country has a lot of work to do to change this.
Wonderful job, Chris. You are a great narrator. I learned a lot from this, as I knew very little about this area. The history of the toxins is unbelievable. I don't know what shocks me more, that this was once a thriving community or that people still decide to live there knowing all this.
Thanks from a Metro-Detroit Civil engineer, great programs, you do interviews!
Chris you have an amazing channel and i just want to thank you ! I also have a you tube channel and kinda gave up on it . i started watching your videos and you inspired me back to doing videos again! keep up the great work and yes i subcribed !
Thanks! Just don’t give a rip on what other loser commenters say and do your best to make the best content that you know how. 👍🏻
@@ChrisHarden YES SIR! I grew up in cahokia and the st loius area . omg your videos brought so many memories back! i now live in tampa bay area Florida you got to come do videos down here! trust me we got some hoods down here too LOL! thanks bro for the motivation and amazing videos i cant wait for new places to see and learn about!
Back in the 90s I was backing out of the driveway behind the RR crossing sign @ 18:06 when a young man, who was speeding over the RR tracks, t-boned the bed of my pickup. He was smart not to get out of his car until the cops arrived. There were some very angry residents who were saying some very nasty things to him. Good times.
He was probably a crack head from downriver trying to cop.😀
Very insightful video!
Boynton near Delray in Detroit. Boynton Beach is just north of Delray Beach, in Palm Beach County in FL., between Boca Raton and Lantana. I lived in Delray and Ocean Ridge, which is between the ICW and Boynton. Dixie Hwy ran from Detroit and down through Delray and Boyton Beaches.
In the Rockford Illinois area most of the Marathon Gas stations back in the day were Sinclair Gas stations.
The AK Steel plant is still in use, just under a different company. It's now called Cleveland Cliffs. Though parts of it may be shut down.
Yayyyy! I was waiting for another video 😁. All of that pollution is gross. That should be illegal to be within a certain amount of miles near residential areas. Do Detroit have a 311 system where you can take a picture of the trash and report it so the trash people so they can come and pick it up? That’s what Baltimore have.
No 311 service for Detroit 🙃
I don't mind progress or manufacturing but I do think they should be careful of where they build and how close they are to the towns..I grew up in a town that had a refinery and there was another 18 miles north of my home town and there were deformed babies born to people who lived within a 3 block area..It was sad..😥
Right. I agree that we need the jobs but not at the cost of peoples health. These industrial areas should’ve always been kept separate from residential neighborhoods… but people weren’t thinking about that back then when these neighborhoods and industrial areas were being built.
Thank you Chris, well done.
Well done
I thought the "rust belt" name originated because road departments dumped so much salt on the roads?
Mr. Harden: At the 8:10 mark of the video, you state that there was "96,000 pounds of propylene gas" released, but the information on the screen reads "96k tons". Can you clarify, please.
Also, I think your videos are very informative. Thank you for these!
Good video
Good work very well put together
Excellent videos!!
Thanks!
This section of Detroit is also referred as the "Dog Leg".
Didn’t know that.
Thank you
I love these industrial videos you do 👍👍 like Delray etc…
Great narration
I used to live in the area-ish
River Rouge off of Schaefer and Jefferson, definitely an interesting area but one I've got a lot of nostalgia for as it's where I spent the first 9 years of my life before we moved to the western suburbs in 2010, lot of time spent in RR/Ecorse/Lincoln Park/Melvindale though my mom was always afraid to spend any amount of time in Detroit itself unless we were going somewhere that required driving through Detroit or was Children's Hospital in downtown lol
Graduated from Rouge high. Husband and kids and cousin worked at Zug. Family worked at marathon also. Also lived at Fort and Oakwood as a kid and in Brightmoor. I seriously want to do a ride along with you!! Lol
We call that area the hole and i also worked there during the expansion. It by far is the most toxic area ive ever seen
When I was a kid, we lived on Lawndale between Logan and Longworth. Had relatives in Delray
I used to go to Boynton Middle School, back in the Eightys, It was like a prison. You had to walk single file up against the wall and you couldnt socialize in the lunch room ( We did anyways, Some times...) I wanna go back.
Thanks for your videos, very informative indeed! I actually grew up in this neighborhood. (Electric Street to be exact, 26:00 mark) The new TV series on the Starz network, called 'BMF' speaks about this neighborhood in the 1980's..
I worked at the Rouge, Ford poisoned the area with their coke ovens, and iron foundry an unbelievable amount of air pollution. my dad worked in the DIF for years in the 60's. The fly ash from the smokestacks would pit the paint on your car. Living downwind in Oakwood heights you had to keep your windows closed or that dust would be in the house. I worked in the Coke Ovens in the late 70's when all the ovens where still in operation. for a year as a millwright apprentice. Nasty place , you would get dirty time 25 and out instead of 30 because if was agreed that place would shorten your life. now the place is gutted, I don't hardly recognize it. Knew the area well until I was In the Power House when it blew. 2-1-99 good riddance's I guess.
me too, thumbs up!
Thanks!
SMELLVINDALE 🤣😂🤣😂 We would say that in jr high! WOW 👏🤣😂🤣🤘
I was originally from Melvindale. I could see the Ford Rouge plant from the end of my street.
Yes it did stink there all the time.
I recall driving past the oil refinery with the Pistions basketball. Driving on I-75, I just got a whiff of it, my god I would say that entire area needs to get out of there cause its nothing but trouble
For a long time, that tank was painted as a Tigers baseball.
When the Tigers hit the skids - and the Pistons had built a basketball powerhouse, it was repainted as a basketball.
just so you know, the neighborhoods near the pollution are older than the pollution.
many of the homes dating pre-1920's before they were annexed into the City of Detroit.
We been around there in 2013 , we spent 3 weeks in the area and stayed in woodhaven MI not to far from this area , I noticed Zug Island is really bad , it’s strange in woodhaven the holiday inn where we where staying behind in it looks like they where trying to make a community but got no where
Will you be covering any of Detroit's suburbs such as Dearborn, Canton, or Inkster?
I plan on having a video for all of the suburbs eventually. For now just Detroit.
Great I live in canton if you need any real facts just IM me a lot goes on here that’s buried
Yeppers i know that area well
one thing to note about some neighbourhoods is that they have scattered occupied houses and then a mix of unoccupied making some literal ghost towns~
Oooooo, fine marathon 81k, marathon probably makes that per hour.
12:04 Gonellas Foods at SE corner, good subs
Coming from Ohio we would always pass this and the old incinerator when we came to visit Detroit
Video 1 out of 27 for Detroit
Haha yup!
Yeah I grew up on Bayside and at 84 and 90 the sub shop is the best
Those big green boats are the Diamond Jack river cruises, I’ve been going on them since I was a kid. I’m assuming this is where they park them for the winter?
Hey that school was called Mark Twain elementary Pre K-5
Sounds to me like "Louisiana's Cancer Alley." Cancer Alley runs from Baton Rouge to just north of New Orleans along the Mississippi River.
Huh. So everyone there's born in July huh. Interesting. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
32:54 This was certainly not recorded recently.
Is it early spring, or late fall? None of the trees have leaves on them. Is it a pollution thing?
January
Corner of mellon and schaeffer shout out to carters welding best welder in town. Gonellas is my jam dude best cold cuts in the entire detroit metro
One of my uncles worked for Northwestern Steel in Sterling Illinois and he died early due to the pollution from the steel plant.
Yup. Places like this are all over the eastern half of the U.S.
Do you have a video of Joliet, IL?
Not yet but one day I plan on it.
Could the gas you are using to drive around with come from that refinery?
Am I ripping on the refinery? Or am I ripping on the city building residential neighborhoods right next to the refinery?
The world may never know.
Here's my suggestion for a St Louis city series of videos if you go to St Louis city again neighborhoods to the left and nickname for the video to the right. not in complete order
1. Downtown St Louis and Downtown West (Downtown area of St Louis obliviously.)
2. Old North St Louis, St Louis Place, Carr Square Lewis Place, Visitation Park Academy (North side St Louis hoods north of delmar south of Natural Bridge)
3. East of i 70 north side (The polluted parts of st louis)
3. Fairgrounds, Mark Twain, Walnut Park East and West, (North St Louis hoods north of natural bridge)
Probably won't be re-doing St. Louis, but I have a few more coming before it's all said and done.
@@ChrisHarden in fact if you have 2 UP posts Monday and Wednesday next week you are pretty halfway done with upper peninsula
good video. evironmental concerns understood. but, video almost makes me a conservative - marathon types are what keep country in operation.
Once Detroit knocks all those buildings down they should plant trees to help out the environment
That refinery is full of big union gravy jobs.
Boynton is home to Big Meech
Sorry about the stinky air.
I had baked beans and strawberry ice cream for dinner which gave me a bad case of "the wind"
Went to Jeffries Elementary School over there...
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Thanks!
I grew up in river roots right by there and it does smell like shit
$81,000 fine for an oil refinery? Someone must have kicked over a trash can. You stae 96,000 ponds your grafic sates TONS? Which was it?
The entire city of Los Angeles has non compliant air quality.
Why?
Another algorithm to destroy. Thanks
Maybe they should rename this section of Detroit “Mount Trashmore”
That's what we used to call the Riverview Highlands Ski Area.
Everything s of 696 is a dump now, used to be 8 mile. Im sure the blight and crime is being covered up.
I know area like the back of my paws....woof
Oddly enough I always thought this area was interesting
Marathon calls it “open green space.” : /
Or any given zip code that Air Force One touches down in…
Why u don't go in the white neighborhoods and stop bad talking Detroit
How am I bad talking Detroit? Can’t handle the truth? Do you think that this area is good for peoples health?
Dude what does a white neighborhood has to do with how toxins, pollutants affected the health of so many people in the areas that the author is speaking of. Marathon and others didn't set up shop near white neighborhoods. So many people from this area had suffered with cancer, MS, tumors and so many other health issues. Why do you have a problem with Chris exposing the truth? These companies didn't care about the people of Detroit.
Detroit has no "white" neighborhoods to speak of, though it does have some diverse neighborhoods (particularly in the northwestern part of the city) that are livable.
OTOH, property taxes are high, because poorer neighborhoods bring in less revenue.
Lol he has plenty of positive videos about Detroit as well and how is fact based truth being negative?
I don’t think people would be interested in seeing footage of well manicured lawns, clean streets and well kept homes in the white neighborhoods. After applying the last coat of paint on my white picket fence I like to relax and observe Detroit’s squalor from the safety and security of my white neighborhood. The citizens of Detoilet should put down their blunts and pick up a garbage bag. Don’t like your environment? Clean it up and take some accountability!
Check 1 2 3 stop making money slamming Detroit 313
Was going to sub but your decision to wear a mask changed my mind. Can’t support the attempt to normalize such sheepish behavior.
It was meant for humor regarding the pollution, but alright.
Grew up in river rouge!
Gonella's is still there!!!!!
My family has called it “the stinky bridge” my entire life!
Lol