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What Do We Owe the Chicago River? Disinfection

June 24, 2009

Posted by Henry Henderson in Curbing Pollution

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bacteria, chicago, chicagoriver, cookcounty, decontamination, illinois, metropolitanwaterreclamationdistrict, oliverwendellholmes, pollution

I was struck by the beautiful and poetic ode to the Chicago River that Deborah Shore posted on Huffington Post this week. The history of the waterway is truly amazing and central to the growth of the great city...continued

Henry Henderson
Henry Henderson
Director, Midwest Program NRDC
Chicago, Illinois
I was born in Granite City, Illinois, a steel town where the coke plant sits...
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