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The Grand Calumet River is a 13.0-mile-long (20.9 km) [3] river that flows primarily into Lake Michigan. Originating in Miller Beach in Gary , it flows through the cities of Gary, East Chicago and Hammond , as well as Calumet City and Burnham on the Illinois side.
Industrial development in the Calumet River area began around the 1870s, and by 1890 the western reach of the Grand Calumet River was heavily polluted with the waste of steel mills, foundries, a meat packing plant, and glue and cornstarch factories. Industry continued to spread along the eastern reach of the river between 1890 and 1910, with ...
It is a component of the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS), which is, itself, a part of the Illinois Waterway, which links the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. The Lock & Dam is named for Thomas J. O’Brien , who was a U.S. Representative for the 6th District of Illinois from 1933 to 1938 and again from 1943 to 1964.
The Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) is an agency of the state of Oklahoma [1] created to control, develop, and maintain the Grand River waterway. It was created by the Oklahoma state legislature in 1935, and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. GRDA was designed to be self-funding from the sales of electricity and water.
Sources of pollution Impact Darling River: New South Wales, Australia: Third-longest river in Australia, and the outback's most famous waterway. [204] Pesticide runoff [205] [206] Suffered from a severe cyanobacterial bloom that stretched the length of the river in 1992. [207] Also suffered from fish kills in 2019 and 2023. [208] [209] King River
[5] [6] Thereafter, additional artificial waterways were built that became part of the CAWS, such as the North Shore Channel, which runs inland from Wilmette to the Chicago River and was constructed in 1910, and the Cal Sag Channel, which provides a direct path from the Calumet River to the Illinois Waterway and was finished in 1922. [7]
Calumet City aldermen voted Thursday to move a forward with plans to demolish the former Sears store at River Oaks Center to make way for modern development. The city, which gained ownership of ...
The name Calumet is said to come from French interpretations of either the Potawatomi name for the rivers and lake in question (“low body of deep, still water”) [8] or is a corruption of the Old French term Chalemel, which means "reed". The word appears on early maps as Cal-La-Mick, Kil-La-Mick, Calumic, etc. [1]