Word: chena
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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...
...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