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Fuddnik

(8,846 posts) Fri Mar 27, 2015, 02:46 PM Mar 2015

The days before the EPA (link to slideshow)

I started working in those mills in 1971. That Clark Avenue Bridge ran over the Cuyahoga River, which caught fire a couple of years earlier. Although the mills screamed to high heaven that pollution controls would put them out of business, you could see the gradual improvement over the years.

After a while you could even catch....and eat...fish caught there.

Damned Big Gubbmint can't get nothing right!

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/cleveland_in_the_1970s_a_gritt.html#incart_gallery