first post with Housatonic River with headwaters, Hinsdale MA... there were 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt along it's route... the 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
Hinsdale MA
charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone,
vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies
Housatonic River
Hinsdale MA
"Historically, the Housatonic River, and its Naugatuck River tributary, hosted the southernmost Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning runs. The Salmon Creek tributary of the Housatonic River may have been named for this salmonid which can reach up to 30 pounds (14 kg)." ...
"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"
Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.
From circa 1932 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." ...
Mercury
The river is polluted with mercury levels far beyond background levels, from the point where the Still River flows into it. The historical hat industry of Danbury, Connecticut was the source of most of this mercury pollution, from mercury nitrate used in the felting process. The mercury remains in sediment and flows downstream, especially during storm events. High mercury levels are measured in the sediment at the outflow delta of the Housatonic River into Long Island Sound." ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River
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