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Saving Nichols Drive

"River vanes" protect a vital road

by Steve Gilzow

posted 1/9/2009

Beginning in the parking lot below the U-M Hospitals, Nichols Drive runs along a steep, curved bank of glacial moraine that rises at a forty-degree angle to a height of eighty-five feet. And it runs right alongside a wicked curve in the Huron River. Two years ago, the outer edges of the road washed out there.

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