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...federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 set standards for cleaning up the nation's water resources. As a result, the Potomac River is safe for swimming again, Lake Erie is coming back to life, and even Ohio's Cuyahoga River, which once caught fire when petroleum wastes in it ignited, shows signs of improvement...
Douglas H. Worthington Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
...give seasoned political leaders more say in the nomination, a number of delegate seats could be automatically allotted to them. Tim Hagan, Democratic Party chairman of Ohio's Cuyahoga County, recommends letting state parties add at least 25 delegates from their own ranks who would be uncommitted to any particular candidate. That would leave them free to bargain with other delegations at the convention. Says Hagan: "I see nothing wrong with 100 county chairmen from across the country having some say about what direction they want to go in. At least they would be a check on the possibility...
...Cuyahoga River, emptying into Lake Erie, was so laden with oil and debris that it twice caught fire. Masses of dead alewives washed ashore in Lake Michigan, fouling beaches. Tangles of Cladophora, a smelly freshwater seaweed, clogged other beaches. Commercial fisheries, which had long flourished on the lakes, perhaps a bit too aggressively, began closing for lack of good fish and fear of DDT and mercury contamination...
Thus the problems of the Great Lakes are not solved because the beach at Storing State Park on Lake Erie is officially opened again for the first time since 1961, or because the Cuyahoga River, while gray and sulky looking, is relatively free from oil and jetsam, or because the water treatment plant in Chicago is having fewer taste and odor problems. Says EPA's Swain: "We still have a long way to go before we solve the problems of toxic substances. Then there is a whole series of new environmental issues." Among them: sodium from the salt used...