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- The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared . . .
To the surprise of no one who worked on the Cuyahoga, an oil slick on the river caught fire the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969 The blaze only lasted about 30 minutes, extinguished by
- Cuyahoga River - Wikipedia
In 1969 the Cuyahoga River fire, along with the Santa Barbara oil spill earlier that year, helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities, resulting in amendments extending the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio Environmental
- The 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire - U. S. National Park Service
Stories about the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire often combine fact and myth People generally agree about what occurred on and immediately after June 22, 1969 Myth enters the stories when people describe the fire as a primary cause of major milestones in the environmental movement
- The Shocking River Fire That Fueled the Creation of the EPA | HISTORY
But on June 22, 1969, a spark flared from the train tracks down to the river below, igniting industrial debris floating on the surface of the water
- Cuyahoga River Fire - Cleveland Historical
Yes, an oil slick on the Cuyahoga River - polluted from decades of industrial waste - caught fire on a Sunday morning in June 1969 near the Republic Steel mill, causing about $100,000 worth of damage to two railroad bridges Initially the fire drew little attention, either locally or nationally
- Environmentalism History: The Importance of Clevelands Cuyahoga River . . .
On this day, June 22, in 1969, the Cuyahoga River burst into flames in Cleveland when sparks from a passing train set fire to oil-soaked debris floating on the water’s surface
- The River Caught Fire: The Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969
On June 22, 1969, an oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River just southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio The image that the "the river caught fire" motivated change to protect the environment However, this was in fact the thirteenth recorded time that the river had caught fire since 1868
- CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE - Case Western Reserve University
The CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE (22 June 1969) dramatized the extent of the river's pollution and the ineffectiveness of the city's lagging pollution abatement program
- Cuyahoga River Fire (1969) | World of History
The Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969 is one of the most iconic moments in American environmental history A river catching fire sounds almost mythical, but it actually happened, and not just once
- How The Cuyahoga River Fire Of 1969 Changed America
The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire was far from the worst ecological disaster in America But it was one of the most memorable — and it helped change the way Americans think about the environment forever
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