• cawsby [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    TBH the Ohio River watershed is already fucked.

    Dredging the Ohio River to make fishing safe year round would take decades. At least 3-4 feet of contaminated sediment near places like Cincinatti.

    Everything from tanneries to refineries have dumped chemicals on that river.

    • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      yeah but this is a mass release and burning of chlorinated hydrocarbons. even with how disastrously these factories are run, they dont dump halogenated compounds, OSHA still has a couple teeth.

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The stuff was dumped decades ago, and is already in the river.

        Eastman Kodak used to dump their used photodeveloper in the Ohio river all the way up until the end of the 60's. That is just one company.