mixedfarmer
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The Great lakes have been a sewage lagoon for year. I am glad i dont live there
Yes but things have changed dramatically over the years. Population pressure has made, past practice to be abandoned. During the EXPO 67, Montreal despite it's shiny new subway (the Expo site was a handy tip--dumping spot), was still discharging untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence. In the 80's, areas near the river dumped their snow into the river.
Here locally, the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority constructed a series of dams and man-made lakes--ostensibly for conservation and flood control but were actually to provide a steady river flow past the sewage plants to dilute the effluent.
I recall lake Erie being badly polluted, a situation which has improved dramatically.
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The CDC had refused to release the report because of "serious concerns" about certain research methods, and because it thought the data could lead the public to inaccurately conclude that pollution was found to be directly responsible for elevated rates of illness and death.
But it relented after pressure from environmental groups, Congress and even the Canadian government, which wrote to the CDC on Feb. 25 expressing its "concern" about the delay.
The CDC being based largely on medical matters, is not going to be stampeded by a bunch of activists presenting AGW style junk science. There is hope yet.
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