Posted on Jun 18, 2019
How Ohio's Cuyahoga River Came Back To Life 50 Years After It Caught On Fire
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Worth Celebrating. A Clean River.
How Ohio's Cuyahoga River Came Back To Life 50 Years After It Caught On Fire
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Cleveland
Environment
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I remember that, I lived in Cleveland at the time, I was about 6 years old. I also remember that shortly after that some people started calling Cleveland the "mistake on the lake" ) :
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Great news even though I knew it from the development along the river side in Cuyahoga Falls and Cleveland.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Celebrating the Comeback of the Burning River, 1969-2019
To many, the Cuyahoga River fire on June 22, 1969 represents a turning point for environmental regulation. This river caught the attention of a nation due to...
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in the mid-1980s, I once rented a canoe from the U-Haul on Clark Ave in Cleveland. With the assistance of a good friend, we canoed down the Cuyahoga from Bath Twp. to the east bank of the Flats near the railroad bridge, right before whiskey island. I learned then why the Native Americans named it appropriately the "Crooked River" each of those turns was at least a mile or two and really made for a lenghty trip!
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