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Word: chena (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides being one of the few spots in Fairbanks where you can camp for free with access to drinking water (Fairbanks' Chena River is a convenient sewer), the municipal picnic area draws, sooner or later, a lot of Fairbanks' citizens...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

...change." Wherever man has settled in the great land, he has left an ugly mark. Anchorage, rimmed on three sides by mountains, has air-pollution problems like those of Los Angeles. In Fairbanks, ice fogs mix with smoke and auto exhaust to produce a particularly noxious result, and the Chena River, which splits the city, is a sewer. In the desolate village of Eek (pop. 182), sewage disposal is impossible because the water table is practically level with the ground. The only flush toilet in town is disconnected. Human

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Land: Boom or Doom | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

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