The Oxbow and Suwanee Lagoon Mycoremediation Demonstration Project
With this grant, The Henry Ford (THF) and the Mushroom Conservatory (TMC) will work together to pilot a water quality restoration project grounded in “mycoremediation” – a developing field of environmental restoration that utilizes the biochemical properties of certain fungi to extract contaminants from water and sediment. The pilot will be implemented in a small channel of the Rouge River, the Oxbow, which runs through THF property with the assistance of students at the Henry Ford Academy. The participants hope to use this grant to demonstrate that the water quality improvements available through mycoremediation could potentially be scaled to improve water quality in the larger Rouge River.