Soon to be site of a waterfall. No, really, a real waterfall.

  • Soon to be site of a waterfall. No, really, a real waterfall.

If you see thousands of gallons of water running off the Detroit — Superior Bridge this week, don’t panic. It’s just Ingenuity’s dramatic new water feature.

Ethiopian —born Cleveland artist Kidist Getachew, working with Michael Lehto and John Thomas—conceived the waterfall as an extravagant display of Great Lakes water wealth, which starkly contrasts the situation in her homeland. It promises to make quite a splash, dumping 5,000 gallons of water per minute in a band 48 to 60 feet wide off the deck of the bridge 130 feet into the Cuyahoga River down below.

This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2010.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

3 replies on “Ingenuity Turning Detroit-Superior Bridge Into a Waterfall”

  2. No one see’s the irony of them dumping millions of gallons of water in to the river to highlight the lack of water in other parts of the world?

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