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Installed in May 2014, the water wheel trash interceptor known as Mr. Trash Wheel, officially the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, is the world's first permanent water wheel trash interceptor. [1] It sits at the mouth of the Jones Falls River in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A February 2015 agreement with a local waste-to-energy plant is believed to make ...
16.4 lb (7.4 kg) (with SAPI plates used; everything in Interceptor) [2] 8.4 lb (3.8 kg) (outer tactical vest) [ 2 ] The Interceptor multi-threat body armor system ( IBA ) is a bullet-resistant body armor system that was used by the United States Armed Forces during the 2000s, with some limited usage into the mid-2010s.
Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (1899–1986) was an African American nurse who worked in the state of Alabama. She is known for her work as one of the nurses of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study in Macon County from 1932 to 1972 which was "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history."
Logo of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act into law, October 2, 1968. The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-542 [1]), enacted by the U.S. Congress to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values in a ...
Rivers Correctional Institution is a privately owned prison in unincorporated Hertford County, North Carolina, [1] operated by GEO Group under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons since its construction in 2001. [2] The prison, on 257 acres (104 ha) of land, was specially built to house prisoners from the District of Columbia.
Following the Civil War, railroads became recipients of federal funding; funding for river and harbor improvements increased sharply.The 1869 appropriations for rivers and harbors exceeded $2 million, and rapidly grew to tens of millions of dollars per year by the close of the 19th century; the Rivers and Harbors Acts between 1869 and 1930 are illustrative.
Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank. On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.
All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed. Estimates are approximate, because data are variable with time period measured and also because many rivers lack a gauging station near their point of outflow.