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Dan J.S. (me@hyperx.com) wrote:


: > Good ol' Milwaukee, using Lake Michigan as their personal toilet
: > again.  Exact repeat of last spring.  Over 100 million gallons on 4
: > separate occasions last year.  21 million gallons this time.
: >
: > Milwaukee - the habitual offender.  More than 13 billion gallons of
: > untreated wastewater dumped into Lake Michigan since 1993, and
: > growing.  Nice new baseball stadium for them, though.  Lawsuit way
: > overdue, IMO.
: >
: > Robert
: >

: Have you smelled the Chicago River lately? I can't even describe the
: horrific smell that shit hole gives off. Specifically the North section,
: when I ride my bike over in the morning (around Devon). What gets me is that
: there are people in canoes on this thing. Hope they eat a lot of broccoli!


Well, used to be, every third day on average that they had to dump raw sewage
into the river (thats average for an entire year). Now adays with the deep 
tunnel, they manage to average 12 days before releasing raw sewage into the
river, so it is a bit cleaner than it was.

Lots of people think that because fish are returning that it's cleaner, but
in reality, it's because clorinated discharge is illegal now (fish really
don't like swiming in clorinated water). So there is lots of wildlife returning
to the river and it gets dumped in less often than it used to.

The cleanest place on the Chicago is near the Chicago Harbor Lock downtown
as there is no industrial discharge, and it draws in freshwater from the 
Lake.

--
John Nelson
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