Buffalo River: An Urban Waterway's Comeback

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By Innovation Trail | 16 August 2012 | 821

A satellite image of the six-mile Buffalo River, which winds though the city’s gutted industrial district, details an area that was so polluted in the late 1960's that it caught fire. Companies dumped mercury, chromium, PCBs and hundreds of other harmful contaminants into the water, where they settled at the bottom. Much of it is still there. Now, a $50 million cleanup is scooping out the river’s bottom – still contaminated with countless chemicals. Read More