GEOG 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cuyahoga River, Prior To The Fire, Clean Water Act

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First nations: far more peaceful and more improvements in road systems, connection of different streams and expanded into ohio rivers. Lake erie (and the transportation of goods: great lakes had a lot of iron, coal, etc. that needed to be shipped out, e. g. steel mills started to develop. Slide 8: impacts of the cuyahoga river: heavily contaminated by industries, slow moving; led to higher pollutants into the river, e. g. grease, chemicals, heavy metals, began to develop a really toxic area. Slide 9: over time became an open sewer, waste water discharged (from late 19th century until the 21st) and virtually had no treatment, affected the issues of water quality, etc. January 16, 2018: at the end of civil war lead to rapid growth in population. It was in fact the last of such events: local authorities had already started to take action, firms were already started to clean their discharge, a lot of local people began to be concerned.

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