Saginaw River Docks - Lafarge Essexville Dock

Sitting next to the Essroc dock in Essexville is the Lafarge Stone dock. Up until a few months ago, this dock had been known as the Sargent Essexville dock. Now under new ownership, it will be interesting to see if there are any changes in cargo's, vessels and amount of material moved through this dock.


With a somewhat shallow water level just off the dock, the freighters who unload here put their wires out, pull themselves up against the mud and keep pulling closer as the vessel gets lighter and rides higher in the water.



Another interesting note about this dock; it was created back in 1990 after the M/V Jupiter exploded on the Saginaw River and blocked the shipping channel. With the river closed, the Sargent docks in Saginaw could not get any product, so they started using this relatively small piece of land to be able to receive product.