For degawëno:da’s, paddling the length of the Allegheny River over the course of four months this year was to be a “witness to the raw element of the natural world.”
The biggest difference between now and before the Clean Water Act is that citizens who have grown up with it have come to expect clean water, and they aren’t happy when the river gets polluted.
When a flood devastated the river town of Etna in 2004, the community set in motion a radical plan to cope with its stormwater problems using green infrastructure.
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Some Pittsburgh restaurants are collecting oyster shells for new homes for baby oysters. More than eight billion 'spat on shell' have been added to the bay in the effort.
