[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>The canal was completed in 1900 to preserve the water supply for the city of 
>Chicago.   Drinking water for the city was (and still is) drawn from Lake 
>Michigan which was being polluted by raw sewage.   What a great idea!   
>Reverse 
>the flow of the river and send the sewage downstream to the Illinois, and 
>ultimately Mississippi rivers.   I wonder what the good people downstream 
>thought.   

"The breakfast garbage you throw into the bay
They drink at lunch in San Jose"

Tom Lehrer - "Pollution" 

Adrian




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