![]() Produced by Carlos Prieto, Sydney Harper and Rikki Novetsky. Not an effective solution, but no cost-effective alternative is in sight. The senator’s absence is at the center of a growing political crisis. Electric barriers were used, beginning in 2002. ![]() The current problem attempting to be solved is to make the canal impassable for fish, specifically invasive fish like the Asian carp. The major point is this is just one episode of the by-products of the Anthropocene, the age of man: “atmospheric warming, ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, deglaciation, desertification, eutrophication -these are just some of the by-products of our species’ success” (p. So much for the hydrology of the Midwest. Solution: spend lots of money to send it into another river. Because Lake Michigan is the source for drinking water in Chicago, pouring all the waste into it was not a swell idea. ![]() ![]() This covers to Sanitary and Ship Canal, meant to channel the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan to a tributary (Des Plaines River) that eventually feeds into the Mississippi. ![]()
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