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The Cuyahoga River [7] (/ ˌ k aɪ. ə ˈ h ɒ ɡ ə / KY-ə-HOG-ə or / ˌ k aɪ. ə ˈ h oʊ ɡ ə / KY-ə-HOH-gə) [8] [9] is a river located in Northeast Ohio that bisects the City of Cleveland and feeds into Lake Erie.
In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River-the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades-spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of ...
In 1972, three years after the Cuyahoga River fire and Mayor Stokes's efforts to clean it up, Perk formed the NEORSD-or the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. [7] In December 1970 a federal grand jury investigation led by U.S. Attorney Robert Jones , the first grand jury investigation of water pollution in the area, led to Jones filing ...
In Cleveland, pollution was a demoralizing embarrassment to the citizenry. As described in “Fables of the Cuyahoga: Reconstructing a History of Environmental Protection:” "On June 22, 1969, just before noon, an oil slick and assorted debris under a railroad trestle on the Cuyahoga River caught fire...The fire attracted national media attention, including stories in Time, and National ...
“The Cuyahoga River that infamously caught on fire many times, the last time in 1969 down in Cleveland, that river runs through this park and it's named for that,” said Pamela Barnes, the park ...
McEldowney left in May 1969 to work in an antiwar GI coffeehouse in South Carolina, and starting with the issue of Oct. 14, 1969 (vol. 3, no. 2) the paper changed its name to Burning River News, commemorating a famous incident in which the toxic waste on the surface of the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland caught fire. In 1970 it merged with ...
In 1972, three years after the Cuyahoga River caught fire and pressures from the EPA, Mayor Ralph Perk formed the NEORSD-or the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. Perk had to rethink regional Cleveland-Cuyahoga County governmental structure and agencies.
According to the film's director, David S. Ward, he chose the song because it was the only one he knew of that was about Cleveland, Ohio, which is where the movie takes place. The chorus of the song, "burn on, big river, burn on," refers to when the Cuyahoga River caught fire due to pollution in 1969.