Nice to put names to these FS members faces. Can you? (Page 15): Thanks Jay, man's logic in these parts with the Chesapeake Bay and the tributaries just as bad. Still in the clean...

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

J in Cleveland wrote:

Way too many! The red is from all the iron oar that was being put back in the river because it came from the lake originally?! I’m pretty sure that was the logic back then. Just before my time. It took 50years plus to clean up. Very little of those polluting industries here any more.

Thanks Jay, man's logic in these parts with the Chesapeake Bay and the tributaries just as bad. Still in the clean process here.

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

J in Cleveland wrote:

Way too many! The red is from all the iron oar that was being put back in the river because it came from the lake originally?! I’m pretty sure that was the logic back then. Just before my time. It took 50years plus to clean up. Very little of those polluting industries here any more.

Well that's good to know.

DCGravity Loc: Fairfax, VA (by way of Cleveland OH)

J in Cleveland wrote:

Way too many! The red is from all the iron oar that was being put back in the river because it came from the lake originally?! I’m pretty sure that was the logic back then. Just before my time. It took 50years plus to clean up. Very little of those polluting industries here any more.

Thanks for picking this up, J. If I remember from a report on pollution I had to do in the 5th grade, the iron and steel industry began in Cleveland in the 1850s and really exploded in the early 1900s when a couple of huge blast furnaces were built on the banks of the Cuyahoga. So to add to your response, at least 150 years! Just to the right and outside that photo is where my dad and I used to fish in the '60s, the seawall boulders at Edgewater Park. And to think we kept and ate what we caught (mostly perch and sheephead). Great memories!!

J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

DCGravity wrote:

Thanks for picking this up, J. If I remember from ... (show quote)

I fish from there west to Lakewood Park 90% of the time. If you ever make it back here we should hook up.