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Here are some key facts about Zug Island:
Geography: Zug Island is situated where the mouth of the River Rouge spills into the Detroit River1.
Area: It covers an area of approximately 0.93 square miles (2.4 km²).
History: The island was originally a marsh-filled peninsula. Samuel Zug, a businessman and one of the founders of the Republican Party, bought the land in 1876 but later sold it due to its dampness.
Industrialization: In the early 1900s, Zug Island became an industrial hub, particularly for the steel industry. The Detroit Iron Works brought ironmaking to the island in 19011.
Environmental Impact: The heavy industrialization has led to significant pollution and environmental degradation, affecting the local population and wildlife.
The Windsor Hum: Industrial activities on Zug Island have been identified as a likely source of the mysterious low-frequency noise known as the Windsor Hum, which has disturbed residents of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Zug Island is a private industrial site and is not accessible to the public. Its industrial activities have played a significant role in the region’s economy but also in environmental concerns.
EES Coke Battery on the island is one of Michigan's largest emitters of sulfur dioxide. The facility produces a byproduct of coal used to make steel called coke. This process creates sulfur dioxide and is released into the air.
Zug Island has been historically known for its heavy industrial activities, particularly related to the steel industry. Here are some of the industries that have been present on Zug Island:
Steel Production: The island has been home to several blast furnaces for steel production since the early 20th century.
Iron Works: The Detroit Iron Works brought ironmaking to Zug Island in 19012.
Coking Plants: Industries related to coking, a process in coal production, have operated on the island.
Tar and Paper Manufacturing: There have been facilities for tar and paper manufacturing in the area.
These industries have contributed to the economic development of the region but have also been associated with environmental concerns due to pollution and degradation.
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@Katya5cat 6 месяцев назад

The first year that I worked at USS, I was on a weekly schedule to do repairs on the island. At the time, Windsor was up in arms about the humming noise that they were hearing from across the river. They couldn't nail it down as to where it was originating and were spending monies on finding out. It was actually coming from what we called the Zippo. It was a big stack that burned off gas, not used in the processes of iron making. It was quite loud at times. They had 2 zippos, and initially, one had been modified somehow, with the results being the humming sound. Later, the other zippo had been modified in the same manner. I never did find out why the changes were made.

@michaelanthonyvideos 2 месяца назад

I just read some more about that humming sound. There was a study but the city didn’t want to spend more money on it but it was determined that the sound was from Zug Island.

@michaelanthonyvideos 2 месяца назад

@@Katya5cat it looks very interesting and I wish I could go on there and explore it.

@alanfarkas8975 9 месяцев назад

My dad work for the Great Lakes Steel Company after WW2. Rose through the worst jobs to crane operator unloading anything coming in on the cargo ships. Barely remember spending a day up in the booth it was the coolest thing ever. May 27, 1967 he had a massive heart attack in the parking lot following his shift. Desd before he hit the ground. I had just turned 8. I remember the union hall on Jefferson in RR, to me it was a grest little life. We would spend Saturdays shopping on Dearborn Avenue and Jefferson in Delray. The coolest neighborhood bar was ran by a Hungarian family, i would always leave with pocketful of quarters for the shuffleboard table. Onenof my dad's friends knew how to get a free fame so it never cost me. I think they were all in on it. Melvindale class of 77 here.

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Hi Alan, I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your story.

@alanfarkas8975 9 месяцев назад

@@michaelanthonyvideoshank you and you're welcome. We know Zug Island is hell on earth. That hell provide for a lot of area kids to have it better than their parents ever knew.

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

@@alanfarkas8975 yes that’s true!

@dannyjay7431 5 месяцев назад

It’s sad because most of those places on Dearborn & Jefferson are long gone

@rocketman71 9 месяцев назад

Loved it, awesome view. My wife worked there in IT, in the late 80s, when they were going full speed. Fortunately in the admin building just across the bridge. She heard that the worst job in the plant was the blast furnace guys that had to work in the heat resistant moon-suits, supposedly they were ex-cons that were hired no questions asked, and paid well, in cash. They worked something like, 2 hours in the furnace room, 2 hours out, and then back in.

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Wow! I couldn’t even imagine a job like that. It’s good that the building that your wife worked in was off the island.

@rocketman71 9 месяцев назад

@@michaelanthonyvideos It actually was on the island, in a small admin building where they kept the servers. She had to visit buildings all over the island to upgrade terminals. She even had her own hard hat and steel toe shoes. I worried more about the sketchy neighborhood she had to drive through to get there than I did about her working on the island.

@Katya5cat 6 месяцев назад

The men of those years in iron working were "Men of Steel" my hat's off to them. Ex cons or not, it was grueling work, not for the faint of heart. I came along long after the company changed policies, and the ex felons were out. I. Worked on the cast floor a few times with the carpenters, and we didn't have any fire suits. Probably shouldn't have been there, but I was the grunt assigned to carry their lumber and tools. Bottle cars were being filled, and we were 10' from the trough that the iron flowed through. It was hotter than being too close to a bonfire. Painful, almost. Thankfully, I only had to be there once a week on the down day crew. Later, I was assigned to crane repair, where I worked on EOT cranes and never worked the island again.

@williamyekin8639 5 месяцев назад

Worked there mid 90s for 3 long years! Moved to main plant after that 😊

@michaelanthonyvideos 4 месяца назад

@@williamyekin8639 That would be an interesting experience.

@thebammer4832 9 месяцев назад

Growing up in Windsor, the late 70's. I had a girlfriend on the West Side of Windsor. I used to ask what that smell was and her father always used to point to Zug Island and stated ... It's from The Zug. I know, in my heart that Zug Island "before EPA got involved" is the cause of many many cancers in Windsor and Detroit. Just like Chemical Alley in Sarnia

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

And they want everyone to buy electric cars??

@KH-rt3ef 8 месяцев назад

This goes all the way up to our corrupt governors. They are perverts who exploit us all.

@thebabbler8867 5 месяцев назад

@@michaelanthonyvideos😂

@79kevnor 7 месяцев назад

Spent more than 30 years on that patch of earth. Worked with a lot of great men and women. 3rd generation working at Great Lakes. Grandfather and father before me.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 месяцев назад

What did you do there?

@whatchaMACALLEM-222 Месяц назад

yupp i worked there for a long time with a company called bmi and mid-american with my father. lots of good memories here.

@davedon4616 Месяц назад

Only thing depressing about this is the thousands of people who don’t have jobs there anymore

@wientz 9 месяцев назад

Great footage...I remember seeing a picture of those 3 big unloaders taken from the river where they look like 3 big guard dogs on watch over Zug. Even from different angles they look like some mechanical animals!

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Guard dogs is a great description. Thanks for watching!

@kurtboginski507 9 месяцев назад

That is really one RAW looking place. Almost like a movie set for some end of days film. Certainly somewhere that I would not like to venture to. With U.S. Steel up for sale, it will be interesting to see how Zug Island fares in the future. Thanks for the history lesson in the description below. Always enjoy your GREAT videos on places we would never see.

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

It’s a nasty wasteland. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future.

@Katya5cat 6 месяцев назад

I worked at USS GLW, and as I retired, they closed up all steel making and the hot mill also. Only parts of the mill were still going. The CGL and CSL were still going. Galvanizing and customer service lines. I never left willingly as I came off disability when they were letting everyone go. They offered to keep me on, but I took the advice of my doctor and retired.

@adp5R3x 3 месяца назад

#kurtb. AS a matter of fact , ROBO COP 1 has scenes filmed underneath the inoperative "A" furnace

@michaelanthonyvideos 2 месяца назад

@@Katya5catSmart decision.

@michaelanthonyvideos 2 месяца назад

@@adp5R3x I think that might be a myth. No cameras are allowed on the island and it’s too toxic.

@jKLa 5 месяцев назад

The ironmaking facility on the island along with the nearby steel mill it supplied shut down in April of 2020. There is still a steel finishing plant along with the coke battery but it's nothing like it was juat a few years ago in terms of either air pollution (lots of smoke) or the loud noise from the island (Windsor Hum) that could untill then be herd from miles away...

@davidbehrend7054 8 месяцев назад

More like “uuuggghhh” island. One of the last things you see when leaving, or first things entering the US, when people cross the international bridge after it opens. I’m guessing the cost of land around that was one of the reasons that location was chosen. Great video!!

@michaelanthonyvideos 8 месяцев назад

Thank you David! The residents in that area have had a lot of health issues.

@transylvanianvistas 9 месяцев назад

Great drone footage and amazing views. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

@BlueCollar850 8 месяцев назад

I’ve worked on the island for years. The battery is actually one of the cleanest and best run in the country. This is a very tough place to work. And not like other labor jobs. It’s a different kind of hard work. It takes a certain kind of person to make it on this island. These videos will never do it justice from afar the amount of grit this place has and requires from us who make our living here.

@michaelanthonyvideos 8 месяцев назад

It’s looks like a very tough place to work EMU. I hope it pays well.

@BlueCollar850 8 месяцев назад

@@michaelanthonyvideosthat depends on how many hours you work. You can make $100,000 or at least close to it but it will come with a price.

@frphxkaboom3008 5 месяцев назад

I worked in Fords coke ovens as an apprentice M/W in 78 79 nasty place that tolerated a lot of drunks. The dust and the fumes were unbelievable. People would retire and die ...cancer ate him up was what I heard. The work was hard and dirty but there was a lot of f..off time I didn't want to graduate there. FYI at full use there were 205 ovens that were pushed basically once a day. the coke went straight to the blast furnaces and there was a lot of by products distilled to anything you could make out of oil. I worked for years in the blast furnaces it was clean compared to the choke ovens.

@michaelanthonyvideos 4 месяца назад

@@frphxkaboom3008 That is terrible.

@whatchaMACALLEM-222 Месяц назад

yupp working here made other work ive had easy since everything went idle. some of the hardest work ive ever done was on this island and the BOP.

@thomasrobinson8336 18 дней назад

Another Great video.See this is what I mean re watch the beginning and look at the bridge. Look at how far away they were. This is Recorded history. Well done. Take a bow

@michaelanthonyvideos 18 дней назад

@@thomasrobinson8336 👍 thank you Thomas!

@user-mb9mo8ku8w 9 месяцев назад

Just found you ~ really liking and appreciate your videos. Grew up in the area back in heyday of Detroit, toured the Rouge steel mill as a kid. Thanks

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Very cool! Thank you for the video.

@briansharkey2719 2 дня назад

I spent 8 years workin on Zug. 1988 1996 Stated in the cintar plant then blast furnace then the highline then the ore dock.

@johnmaclachlan6818 2 месяца назад

How in the hell is a drone flying over zug? Back when I was on the island if you got caught taking pictures they would throw you off and possibly the company you worked for off the island. They did have signs that said no camera on property.

@michaelanthonyvideos 2 месяца назад

Well, I just flew the drone over the island and took some video. Yes it’s not a No fly zone.

@johnmaclachlan6818 2 месяца назад

@@michaelanthonyvideos An old timer on the island told me one time that there are old chain driven Mack dumptrucks that went off into the water and he said that they are still there. I was told by someone else that zug island is in the Guinness book of records for being the dirtiest place on earth. Something to check into .

@michaelanthonyvideos 2 месяца назад

@@johnmaclachlan6818 I bet you have some interesting stories that you can tell us.

@JaysFan2024 19 дней назад

What’s the reason for the secrecy

@ajkvlogs8511 9 месяцев назад

It’s pretty cool being able to work on Zug island

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

You work there now?

@ajkvlogs8511 9 месяцев назад

@@michaelanthonyvideos yup I have worked on the island sence June there are a couple different companies that still run on the island drc ees and a few other ones

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Have fun! @@ajkvlogs8511

@SaltedJosh 6 месяцев назад

Great footage. I'm curious, I don't live in the area anymore but visit family periodically. Is there a good spot to get good photos and video of the island without a drone if I just drive to the area on Jefferson?

@electrictractiontrainsandt3063 8 месяцев назад

Ok, I found the full video! Excellent work!👍

@michaelanthonyvideos 8 месяцев назад

Thank you and Happy New Year!

@charlesmullins3238 6 месяцев назад

Compare this to the steel on the rouge vid….i love that one…youngstown and Bethlehem…lakwanna..Weirton…and the other big one on Maryland I believe…dad put 30yr underground coal mines in eastern Ky and all we’ve known around here is hard work so kinda why I gravitate towards steel mills ands where lotta our coal used to end up…papaw worked at inland steels “price” tipple in Price Ky so it’s all liked us together in ways

@Katya5cat 6 месяцев назад

Duh, I just noticed the title of the video. I was wondering why the drone wasn't moving towards the new bridge. You know! Where all the exciting things that happened in the last hundred years. The pond scum someone mentioned is rain water puddling up in the old taconitite pellet storage for iron, making there used to mountains of the stuff. They also stored it on the other side of the blast furnaces close to the new bridge. I doubt that the water collecting there will be treated. Process water from iron and steel production was treated. If you look on Google satellite, view you can see the treatment plant is still there. Can't say that its working still. I see that only the furnaces are standing. All the other buildings, boiler house, shops, though it looks like the "Bull Gang's" building is there. They were the guys who handled maintenance. Most all the other buildings are gone except a locker room and medical.

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 месяцев назад

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing the info!

@frphxkaboom3008 5 месяцев назад

I worked in Fords blast furnace for years. the wastewater treatment plant is process water from the dust catcher and the gas washer. they cleaned the co and co2 coming off the furnaces with mill water and used the gas to heat the stoves. that water was filtered chlorinated and dumped into the slip. the empty pellet bins are nothing. the place looks sad. some day it will be torn down. I can't believe that coke oven battery is still in operation

@rendezvousreviews Месяц назад

Wow 😮

@johnboes-twangintrainstaho229 5 месяцев назад

That was awesome man, I love this stuff!!👍

@cortezmiller1899 9 месяцев назад

I thought there talks of closing the island? If so, what will be used for that location?!

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Maybe a junkyard. The land is so contaminated it would take decades of clean up to be able to build on it.

@jeremiahd2417 6 месяцев назад

Theyre going to likely turn it into a bulk storage place for coal, stone, concrete, that sort of stuff. Thats what the listing showed anyways.

@Tipp_Of_The_Mitt 8 месяцев назад

A little paint and it'll clean right up.

@michaelanthonyvideos 8 месяцев назад

😅

@SM-gc2tx 3 месяца назад

I know a friend of a friend that worked there up until fairly recently, he apparently saw someone get vaporized by molten metal or high pressure steam or something like that

@michaelanthonyvideos 3 месяца назад

Wow

@robertkaspert4092 9 месяцев назад

Michael what is that pool of water? Great video Michael as always thank you.

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

Not sure-toxic waste. Possibly from the Coke plant.

@eo621 Месяц назад

It’s not toxic waste it’s called algae lol that spot was used to store steel ore pellets and since the closing of uss it’s just a big swimming pool.

@blackjesus4565 3 месяца назад

It’s a filthy place but RIP to all my people lost RiP Gary ,Al, Sue ,Neicy ❤

@Jeff-Lawrence 5 месяцев назад

Makes you wonder what all that stuff does. Good place for a horror movie.

@Davygreens Месяц назад

That island used to be a Native American burial ground

@michaelanthonyvideos Месяц назад

@@Davygreens 💯

@adp5R3x 3 месяца назад

Everybody should Go There at least ONCE ! 'like something out of Dantes Inferno 🔥 sheet steel Rots ... but Trees Grow belligerently out of the Zug Dust 🌳

@michaelanthonyvideos 3 месяца назад

Yes they should.

@cynicalnoir2394 4 месяца назад

Anybody know anybody there who would let me drive my Tacoma up the dirt mountain? I wanna park it there

@louoldschool7047 2 месяца назад

that's not dirt, it's coal

@AlleyKatt 9 месяцев назад

I take it back. From the view of bridge two minutes in the two sides really are getting close. I *think* the scum pool is the rainwater retention pond so that the contaminated run-off can be filtered/treated before release. If that's not what that is then they really need one. Pronto. Nice video. Not your nicest, of course, but that's about your subject and certainly not your artistic abilities. This island is so nasty you'd think it's somewhere in Ohio about thirty years ago. No offence intended, Ohioans... well, maybe a little. Maize & Blue and all that.

@michaelanthonyvideos 9 месяцев назад

It is a little different in Ohio…

@scottmaasmedia 8 месяцев назад

Great drone captures. Nice work and detailed perspectives. Here's our latest Portal North Bridge Project shoot showing a girder install near the Northeast Corridor in New jersey. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-289k4pJh2p4.html