Video by: Jenny Kalish
Music by: A Story Told
Each week, Great Lakes Echo features a photo story about a different Area of Concern designated by the U.S. or Canadian governments in the Great Lakes basin.
Guess where the area is located, based on the description of the site.
This week’s expert is Mark Mattson, president and waterkeeper with the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
Summary of the area:
- A beautiful river runs through the city and into a bay, and it is a major fish habitat.
- It was a great port town because it had transportation, infrastructure, incredible farmland and lots of fresh water.
- Was listed in 1987 because of the continuous discharge of nuclear waste by a local radium refinery that was built in 1933.
- The plant was used to refine uranium for the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.
- The inner harbor is no longer an area for recreational and public use because of the severe pollution from the refinery.
Last week’s answer: Eighteen Mile Creek, New York.
View Week Three Great Lakes Areas of Concern in a larger map
Photo credits: Lake Ontario Waterkeeper; Flickr: Bobolink, Stephen Gardiner, Loveshobbits25, Sörensen, Shutterbug, Mark Vogel, CalTek, Buddha Baby, Travis Dick, Annecyhs, Matt Jiggins, Bricoleurbanism.