Monroe Review

City of Monroe issued the following announcement on Feb 24.

River Raisin Documentary Film Wins Award for Excellence!

The City of Monroe’s Commission on the Environment and Water Quality (COTE) and River Raisin Area of Concern’s mini documentary film, River Raisin Legacy Project, has won Gold in the 2021 dotCOMM Awards.  The dotCOMM Awards is an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication.  

The River Raisin documentary film premiered at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in New York City in 2019 and was subsequently shown at the 2020 Thunder Bay International Film Festival in Alpena, Michigan and the Nature Track Film Festival in Los Olivos, California. The film details the extensive remediation, restoration and revitalization efforts over the past three decades.  This effort, called the River Raisin Legacy Project, illustrates the cleanup work, habitat restoration, remediation and recreational enhancements among many other projects and activities.

Through past grants, the COTE/City of Monroe and its partners have removed dams and created passages permitting fish to migrate, for the first time in over 80 years, a twenty-three mile stretch of the River Raisin.  The documentary showcases the relentless efforts of volunteers, staff and key stakeholders to restore the ecology and natural beauty, as well as the cultural and recreational value of this regional asset including fishing, kayaking, wildlife viewing and more.  

The film is a powerful visual outreach tool that enhances existing educational outreach material and initiatives COTE has released.  It also showcases the positive statement of Monroe’s hard work on a   federally identified issue.  It is the hope of COTE that the film can serve as a model and inspiration to other AOCs and citizens, as well as local and regional stakeholders.

To read the full press release:

https://monroemi.gov/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx...

To view the documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1WFok6EMs

To learn more about the River Raisin Legacy Project:

https://monroemi.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=10126595...

Original source can be found here.