Pollution, politics clog Mahoning River
Aug 31, 11
Up stream from where Luis Velazquez regularly casts his fishing pole beneath the Liberty-Girard Bridge, the slow moving water glistens in summer sunlight as oil residue creates a thin sliver silhouette along the riverbank. Calmly flowing down stream, water disappears and rushes over one of nine remaining low-head dams along the lower Mahoning River. Just over the crest of the industry made waterfall, fishermen such as Velazquez can often be found along the banks of what former Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams categorizes as the “most grossly underused” physical asset of the Mahoning Valley.
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