18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt along route with Housatonic River...
a journey with two days... 

day 1...  7/13/18...

charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

Dalton MA

"Dalton is the location of two Crane Paper Mills and is the headquarters of the US Government Products business. Nestled in the Berkshires, Dalton cherishes its small-town atmosphere and is focused on family life. Part of the greater Pittsfield area, there is a population of 50,000, yet it is all within an hour drive of larger metropolitan areas in New York, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts" - https://www.cranecurrency.com/careers/en-us/dalton-page.html

https://www3.epa.gov/region1/npdes/permits/draft/2011/draftma0000671permit.pdf 

Crrane is licensed now to discharge Class B water... Class B water is "Inland Water Class B: These waters are designated as a habitat for fish, other aquatic life, and wildlife, and for primary and secondary contact recreation. Where designated they shall be suitable as a source of water supply with appropriate treatment. They shall be suitable for irrigation and other agricultural uses and for compatible industrial cooling and process uses. These waters shall have consistently good aesthetic value." - http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/harbor/pdf/wqstandards.pdf 

"Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.

From circa1932 until 1977, the river received PCB protection discharges from the General Electric (GE) plant at Pittsfield Massachusetts [much like the pollution record with GE, General Electric, with PCBs and other contaminants with Hudson River with more clean up neccessary]. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a super fund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999. Most of the PCBs used in the United States during this period were made by Monsanto ^]Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and remediation has taken place, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. 

Additional remediation is planned. The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusets, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment. About 50% of all the PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs. Former filled oxbows are also polluted. 

Birds, such as ducks, and fish that live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can present health risks if consumed."  ...

"The Housatonic River (/huse'tonik/ Hoos-e-TON-ik) is a river, approximately 149 miles (240 km) long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about 1,950 square miles (5,100 km²) of southwestern Connecticut into Long Island Sound Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut [and East of Hudson River watershed... we are all related.] Birds and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and present health 
risks." ... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River

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Water is Life

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