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...river that runs through that shady gorge joins another further downstream, and many more before it descends from the mountains near the city of Rishikesh in Northern India. It is the holy river Ganges, which flows more than a thousand miles south to Calcutta, where the boys are from. A visitor would recognize no similarity between the impossibly quiet life of the mountain landscape and the bustle of a city that has become synonymous for unimaginable squalor and degradation. Its reputation transcends differences among cultures and continents but serves as a worst-case scenario for the human condition...
...source of a creek that fed the Toutle River. Now the valley through which the Toutle flowed is blocked by a 600-ft.-tall wall of volcanic mud and debris. The lake has been slowly filling with dirty water, threatening to overflow eventually and send a torrent of mud downstream...
...following day, a canoeist discovered the body of Eddie Duncan Jr., 21, several miles downstream. The youths reportedly knew each other. They also shared traits with other Atlanta victims besides being black: they lived in low-income housing projects, did odd jobs for extra cash, probably died by asphyxiation and were found clad only in underpants...
...time or another, have been ordered for the Kickapoo. But in 1975, after environmentalists complained about pollution from the proposed construction, these projects were stalled. At about the same time, studies began to show that the projected dam would not fully protect Soldiers Grove-or the other towns downstream from it-despite a price tag that topped $50 million. The annual maintenance of a proposed $3.5 million levee system would have doubled property taxes. Staying put was ruled out because state and federal laws restricted growth funds to towns in flood-prone areas. Since the entire business district of Soldiers...
Coal-tar residues have drained into an aquifer under the metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. While the Twin Cities draw water from the Mississippi River, many of their suburbs depend on the threatened underground supply. Near Charles City, Iowa, some deep wells 30 to 40 miles downstream from a chemical dump have shown traces of contamination. At the waste heap, state analysts have found some 6 million Ibs. of arsenic, as well as large quantities of other dangerous chemicals. Says Larry Crane, director of the Iowa department of environmental quality: "It's an organic chemists' cauldron...