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In 1782, Thomas Jefferson stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle, waters clear, and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids, a single instance only excepted." According to many sources today, the Ohio River is the most...

The most polluted bodies of water in the US Part 3: The Savannah River This one hits close to home for me. I grew up just outside of Savannah, GA. The year I graduated from high school, the Savannah River was the most polluted river in the US. Apparently, not a lot...

Drinking water comes from either surface water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, etc.) or groundwater aquifers. Surface water and groundwater are not isolated systems. Both systems are recharged by stormwater either absorbed into the ground and eventually reaching the...

So this is going to be a little series starting 2 weeks ago and going through the 7 most polluted bodies of water in the US. Since I didn’t start in order, I am not going to follow the order of the list in the original article.  One of the other bodies of water...

Did you see my post last Tuesday?  I ended that post with a list of the 7 most polluted bodies of water in the US, and I was surprised that I had to look a couple of them up…and I was sad to see several of the ones I knew on the list…but that is for another day....

The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA) was prompted in part by the public outrage over the Ohio’s Cuyahoga River erupting into flames on 13 separate occasions from 1869-1969. A March 1970 Time Magazine article described...

The Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 was a complete overhaul of the original Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948. That doesn’t tell much about it, except that water pollution has been a concern for a long time. The 1972 CWA did a lot of stuff: established a...