Breaks my heart to sit (okay, too creepy to sit, so stand) on the banks of the Tittabawasee River east and south of Dow Chemical Company, where, beginning in the 1950's, my dad as an environmental (then called "sanitary") engineer was responsible for the quality of the water. Always between a rock and a hard place, he kept the state Public Health Department phone number in his wallet. Legend has it that every Friday, Dow served a free fish fry lunch to employees. If workers complained that the fish didn't taste so good, Dad knew the plant had dumped too much toxic chemicals that week. Then there were the weeks when there were no fish to catch. A few years ago I stopped at one of those river banks, signs warning not to fish, the land about looking creepily dead. On a map from the mid 1800s, that land, and the area where the Dow Chemical plant sits, was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) village.
"Never planted"??? I'm thinking it was unnecessary - they didnt plow the soil, clearcut forests, pollute rivers - need I go on???
Breaks my heart to sit (okay, too creepy to sit, so stand) on the banks of the Tittabawasee River east and south of Dow Chemical Company, where, beginning in the 1950's, my dad as an environmental (then called "sanitary") engineer was responsible for the quality of the water. Always between a rock and a hard place, he kept the state Public Health Department phone number in his wallet. Legend has it that every Friday, Dow served a free fish fry lunch to employees. If workers complained that the fish didn't taste so good, Dad knew the plant had dumped too much toxic chemicals that week. Then there were the weeks when there were no fish to catch. A few years ago I stopped at one of those river banks, signs warning not to fish, the land about looking creepily dead. On a map from the mid 1800s, that land, and the area where the Dow Chemical plant sits, was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) village.
And that last sentence says it all, doesnt it? Like what communities are "graced" with the polluting industries, refineries, etc now?
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