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Chicago Sanitary And Ship Canal POISONED To Block Feared Asian Carp

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 12.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Great Lakes, Carp, Chicago River, Fish Kill, Toxins, Chicago News

LOCKPORT, Ill. — Environmental officials say they have found a single Asian carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan – the closest any of ...

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Dam the Carp! No more dithering on invasive species

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wisconsin, Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Midwest Generation, Pollution, Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago River, Crawford Generating Station, Natural Resources Defense Council, Fisk Generating Station, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Great Lakes, Great-Lakes-Fish-Fence, Mwrd, Michigan, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The news was very bad on Friday when state and Federal agencies admitted that tests show invasive Asian carp have evaded an electrical barrier intende...

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The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Pollution, Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Water, Chicago, Great Lakes, Privatization, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ballast-Water, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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World Toilet Day: A Modest Proposal

Debra Shore | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sustainable Living, Potable Water, World Toilet Organization, Lake Michigan, Dual-Flush Toilets, Chicago Rain Barrels, Chicago River, Sanitation, Chicago News
Debra Shore

In our sanitation system, we pump water miles to our homes then we use that fresh water in catchbasins called toilets to convey our waste to a sewage treatment plant. How smart is that?

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Train Derails On South Side, Fuel Spills Into Chicago River

Fox Chicago | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Train Accident, Chicago Train Spill, South Side Train Derails, Amtrak, Chicago River Fuel Spill, Chicago River, Chicago News

Emergency crews are responding to a hazardous materials situation Thursday morning after a train derailed in the South Loop, sending fuel into the Chi...

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Chicago's Living River

Brian Dickie | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chinatown, Michigan Avenue, Chicago-Water-Taxi, Willis Tower, Sears-Tower, Chicago River, Tourism, Skyscrapers, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

I have been in Chicago for ten years and had never been in Chinatown before. A trip on the water taxi there is lovely and relaxing.

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Old Stockyards Dumping Ground Bubbly Creek Still Bubbling

Chicago Journal | TIM TALIAFERRO | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Stockyards, Chicago Bubbly Creek, Back of the Yards, Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Bubbly Creek, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Chicago River Pollution, Chicago News

A chain link fence separates Bubbly Creek, a polluted backwater cul-de-sac of the Chicago River, from human contact near 35th Street and Racine Avenue...

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Alligator Caught In Chicago River (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Alligator, Chicago River, Alligator Chicago River, Animals, Chicago Alligator, Chicago News

An alligator thought to be a pet that had grown too large for its owner's peace of mind was pulled from the Chicago River late Thursday night after re...

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Chicago River: From Open Sewer to Crown Jewel?

Henry Henderson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Blair Kamin, Mwrd, Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Daniel Burnham, Chicago River Pollution, Burnham Plan of Chicago, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

While the city and residents have embraced the river, the governmental agency responsible for the waterway continues to turn its back to the river and consider it an open sewer.

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What Do We Owe the Chicago River? Disinfection

Henry Henderson | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Pollution, Chicago River Decontamination, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Chicago River Bacteria, Environment, Cook County, Chicago River, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

I think it is a simple answer: We owe the Chicago River $1.94. That small sum buys us, finally, disinfection of the human waste being dumped into the river and its connecting streams and waters.

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The Audacity of Slope, or How The River Gets Its Groove Back

Debra Shore | Posted 07.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Chicago Water Supply, Chicago Sanitary District, Lake Michigan, Ecocentrism, Environment, Green Living, Thomas Berry, Chicago News
Debra Shore

One hundred and twenty years ago, no one asked, "What do we owe the Chicago River?" Yet today, making amends for past abuses seems to me to be the central biological, physical and moral challenge of our time.

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River Reversal: Chicago's Special Anniversary

Debra Shore | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mwrd, Asian Carp, Chicago River, Water Use, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Water, Chicago Rain Barrels, Chicago Water Supply, Great Lakes Compact, Chicago News
Debra Shore

For Chicago and our region to have a robust economy - and a healthy ecology - for the 21st century, we will be asked to embrace a new paradigm, that of stewardship.

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Scientists: Reverse Age-Old Engineering Or The Great Lakes Suffer

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Lake Michigan, Chicago River, Reversing the Flow of the Chicago River, Animals, Invasive Species, Environment, Green News

CHICAGO — Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block ...

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Bridge Would Connect Trains To Michigan Avenue

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Michigan Avenue, Carroll Avenue, Ogilvie Transportation Center, Chicago Department of Transportation, Union Station, Chicago Bridge, Chicago River, Chicago Transportation, Chicago News

You know that old up-in-the-air railroad bridge over the Chicago River by Kinzie -- the one people like to use as a backdrop for funky, urban wedding ...

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Environmentalists And Regulators Pushing To Clean Up Chicago River

Chi-Town Daily News | Jennifer Slosar | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Environment, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Chicago River, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Chicago River Pollution, Chicago News

One day in July 2007, Katie Coleman found herself upside down in the Chicago River. Her kayak had hit a submerged tree stump and flipped. Coleman, 26...

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The Chicago Floods: When Tragedy Hits Home

Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Des Plaines River, Midwest Floods, Albany Park, Chicago River, Flood, Chicago River Evacuation, Chicago Flood, Midwest Flooding, Chicago River Sewage, Record Rainfall, Extreme Weather, Chicago News
Ari Bendersky

News reports and official city press conferences tell one side of the story. Hearing first hand accounts from residents you learn a different side.

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Chicago River Evacuated

Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Rain, Chicago River, Chicago River Evacuation, Chicago Storms, Chicago News

Evacuations and sandbagging were under way in the Albany Park neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side Sunday morning as a section of the Chicago Riv...

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How Do You Clean The Chicago River

Chicago Public Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Environment, Cleaning the Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Illinois EPA, Chicago River, Chicago River Pollution, Chicago News

Illinois regulators want to disinfect the sewage that flows into waterways like the Chicago River. But the agency that would get that dirty job isn't ...

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Gator Found In Chicago River

MyFOX Chicago | Posted 06.28.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Alligator in Chicago, Pet Alligator, Alligator, Chicago River, Chicago News

An alligator was found in the Chicago River on the South Side Friday afternoon, police said. The alligator, which is about 5 1⁄2 to 6 feet long, wa...

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