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Neuse River: Decades of pollution mitigation assisted by the Clean Water Act, commemorating its 50th anniversary. [9] 2020: Delaware River: 75 years of progress in reducing pollution and restoring wildlife. [10] 2019: Cuyahoga River: 50 years of progress in restoring the Cuyahoga since it caught fire in 1969. [11]
The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at 1,093 feet (333 m) over 84 miles (135 km) from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to 571 feet (174 m) [4] at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively ...
— Cuyahoga River Fire ... 2019 - Earth Day and National Cleanup Day organize the first coordinated cleanup event held in all 50 States and US Territories; 2020s
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As several fires spread across Southern California, President-elect Donald Trump urged California Gov. Gavin Newsom to send water down south from Northern California despite some local officials ...
Time magazine described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays." [ 9 ] The 1969 river fire, and the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill in California—the largest such spill in U.S. history at that time—drew significant public attention to the state of the nation's waterways.
A toy doll, right, found during the clean-up is returned to its original display spot during the Campus River clean-up on Friday, April 12, 2024. During the event, volunteers scoured the river for ...
In 2011, U.S. Senators Richard Durbin and Mark Kirk and Congressman Mike Quigley toured the Chicago area waterways and announced their support for the disinfection projects. In April 2012, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, and the U.S. EPA awarded the MWRD $10 million through the Illinois Jobs Now! capital program ...