Today we introduce a new primary category on Potluck: Environment. That's because we're going to talk about the massive $74 milliion cleanup of a Naperville Superfund site.
Hard to imagine there could even be a Superfund site in Naperville. Technically, it's right over the border in Warrenville, and the thorium-contaminated DuPage River tributary flows through West Chicago, too. Actually, the water wasn't contaminated so much as the mud, but let's not get technical. Let's just be grateful we live in a place where the federal government can spend $78 million removing all traces of potentially harmful contamination from mud in a marsh.
For such a bucolic river as it meansers through Dypage County, it's a shame that the water is so filthy and seems to be loaded with all kinds of pollutants and dangerous chemicals and minerals. To have a nice Riverwalk is one thing, but what good good is it if it straddles a filthy, dangerous waterway. It's about time they cleaned it up. Where was Erin Brockavich when we needed her?
Hey Casmir, why don't you get off you rear end and go clean out the river youself? Or is there a koran up you backside and you can't move? Always complaining and waiting for other to act. And one more thing, check your spelling. You are a buffoon.
As someone who has grown up on the Dupage River, I am glad to see how much it has improved over the years. I can remember, as a kid, the stench that emanated from the river on hot summer days and the lack of any life in what was once a prized trout stream. Now we can see fish and fowl in the water. While it still has a long way to go, it is greatly improved.
To the very rude and cowardly anonymous...somehow I doubt that Casimir is capable of removing the industrial contaminants from the mud and soil surrounding the river. Industry was given far too much leeway in polluting our rivers, land and air. Now we are the ones paying for it through taxpayer funded programs like Superfund. Since you seem quick to criticize Casimir's comments...what have you done...other than act like a a**?
Many people do help to clean the river by volunteering either in the annual river cleanup or by adopting a stretch of river.