I remember when a river caught on fire when I was in elementary school, maybe this is it. There is a song posted on YouTube about how bad Cleveland is, at the end of the song it says "at least we're not Detroit".
Concrete along the river was melted and chard in some spots which can still be seen today. The water of course is better but its still bad. Companies still illegally dump oil and chemicals in the water. Many drain or sewer systems run under many companies and before the fire it was legal for them to pour any waist in drain system which flows into lake Erie. Sadly many companies still do it. No one sees them doing it since the drains are accessed from inside the business.
I'm surprised that river didn't stop flowing altogether! That is so disgusting I can't even begin to imagine what it was like. I'm up here in Wisconsin ranting about all the stuff they do to our rivers here but it looks like I need to reconsider how lucky I am after watching this!
canalgirl- when i was a kid. we would raft the lower gorge near the big dam. we like to go in high water when it was raging. on the way down from the falls side during or right after a storm we would see pipeline caps and vents spewing some really smelly stuff. let me tell you it was so bad you could tell if if was a storm or sanitary leak before you even got near it! i hear they are revamping some of the sanitary pipes on the falls side in the gorge park. cool. anything helps. stay chill.
canalgirl- this docufilm is nearly 50 years old. and the footage is prolly several years older than that. if people get caught dumping like that nowadays they pay lots of money in fines and can even go to jail/community service. what you smell when you are in the river is mostly household waste mishandled by municipalities/leaking from aging infrastructure. periods of heavy rain can actually make it worse when stormwater invades sanitary piping and storage.
they've done a good job of clamping down on industrial polluters, now how about dealing with municipal polluters? there is still raw sewage getting into the river at akron and cuyahoga falls.
The Industrial Revolution led to the contamination of all of America's major rivers, lakes and other significant bodies of water.smdh Money over Nature?
gotta wonder why in 1967 the film is in black and white. did the production company not have a good budget inorder to buy color film ? When dealing with pollution , black and white film doesn't show a good indicator of the mess.
@indyfan22k A lot of U.S. TV stations were still doing local programming in black & white in 1967, and through the late 60s. It took several years & a lot of money for black white film, studio camera & videotape equipment to be upgraded to color at local stations.
Ugh, if only we could see the damage we are causing today as we did on the Cuyahoga, people would recognize that change does not mean improvement but a shifting of where the pollutions go...
I remember when a river caught on fire when I was in elementary school, maybe this is it. There is a song posted on YouTube about how bad Cleveland is, at the end of the song it says "at least we're not Detroit".
clintonearlwalker 2 months ago
Concrete along the river was melted and chard in some spots which can still be seen today. The water of course is better but its still bad. Companies still illegally dump oil and chemicals in the water. Many drain or sewer systems run under many companies and before the fire it was legal for them to pour any waist in drain system which flows into lake Erie. Sadly many companies still do it. No one sees them doing it since the drains are accessed from inside the business.
beeferetown 2 months ago
Vote for Ron Paul in 2012 so that he can dismantle the EPA and return our rivers to industrial sludge!
ShadeToSun 2 months ago
Vote Ron Paul if you'd like to get rid of the EPA.
WiglyWorm 2 months ago
I'm surprised that river didn't stop flowing altogether! That is so disgusting I can't even begin to imagine what it was like. I'm up here in Wisconsin ranting about all the stuff they do to our rivers here but it looks like I need to reconsider how lucky I am after watching this!
KellyThundercloud 5 months ago
@KellyThundercloud It eventually caught on fire.
ShadeToSun 2 months ago
@ShadeToSun Yeah I know! and so many times too! Rediculous!
KellyThundercloud 2 months ago
canalgirl- when i was a kid. we would raft the lower gorge near the big dam. we like to go in high water when it was raging. on the way down from the falls side during or right after a storm we would see pipeline caps and vents spewing some really smelly stuff. let me tell you it was so bad you could tell if if was a storm or sanitary leak before you even got near it! i hear they are revamping some of the sanitary pipes on the falls side in the gorge park. cool. anything helps. stay chill.
swimmerB0B 7 months ago
canalgirl- this docufilm is nearly 50 years old. and the footage is prolly several years older than that. if people get caught dumping like that nowadays they pay lots of money in fines and can even go to jail/community service. what you smell when you are in the river is mostly household waste mishandled by municipalities/leaking from aging infrastructure. periods of heavy rain can actually make it worse when stormwater invades sanitary piping and storage.
swimmerB0B 7 months ago
they've done a good job of clamping down on industrial polluters, now how about dealing with municipal polluters? there is still raw sewage getting into the river at akron and cuyahoga falls.
swimmerB0B 7 months ago
I row there!
ohiocanalgirl 7 months ago
It will be very expensive to clean Cuyahoga River.
victordeinvestor 7 months ago
work has been outsourced to the third world
SHMUJEW 7 months ago
The Industrial Revolution led to the contamination of all of America's major rivers, lakes and other significant bodies of water.smdh Money over Nature?
IceManLikeGervin 1 year ago
at least there not detroit
TheKIdCeltic 1 year ago 4
gotta wonder why in 1967 the film is in black and white. did the production company not have a good budget inorder to buy color film ? When dealing with pollution , black and white film doesn't show a good indicator of the mess.
indyfan22k 1 year ago
@indyfan22k A lot of U.S. TV stations were still doing local programming in black & white in 1967, and through the late 60s. It took several years & a lot of money for black white film, studio camera & videotape equipment to be upgraded to color at local stations.
kylebook 1 year ago
Wow i never realized how much stuff was in the river. It makes me sad to know people are still messing up our waterways.
ohiocanalgirl 1 year ago
The pollution has been outsourced to China. Eventually it will make it back our way.
westonsz 1 year ago 5
Ugh, if only we could see the damage we are causing today as we did on the Cuyahoga, people would recognize that change does not mean improvement but a shifting of where the pollutions go...
xavieous 1 year ago 10
@xavieous SAY IT AGAIN!!!!
KellyThundercloud 5 months ago
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KellyThundercloud 5 months ago