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Annual St. Clair Blue Water Bridge
Riverfest Connecting U.S. & Canada

Boat Races at Port Huron, MI
& Sarnia, Ontario
The annual St. Clair River
“Float Down” is held

the 3rd Sunday each August
from Port Huron to Marysville

Although not a sanctioned event – float freighter traffic... and to keep an
at your own risk - thank you to at least 55 U.S. eye on the 5000 floaters & pad-
dlers.
and Canadian personnel from Sheriff, local Police, Fire, On-
tario Provincial Police, and Coast Guard on hand to enforce Last season’s event there were
the St. Clair River Closure from Noon to 8pm for all boat & no significant incidents to report
by the St. Clair County Sheriff Ma-
rine Division.

Lieutenant Paul Reid did report
however many people began their
journey too late in the day and
had to be removed from the wa-
ters by the Sheriff at earlier points
than planned.

Tip! Start by 3 p.m. or have
an early exit plan. It can take
up to 2 hours from entry point of
Lighthouse Beach north of the
Blue Water Bridge to reach the
Black River in Port Huron.

If you haven’t passed the Black
River by 5:30 p.m., you’ll be forced to get out of the water
there so the St. Clair River can be reopened on time to boat
and shipping traffic.

See pg. 40 for “freighter watching locations” to have

some good laughs for a few hours watching the floaters.

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