Niagara Falls

Type:
artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:
1978 - Quality Marine, Bayou La Bâtre AL USA
Specs:
( 90 ft ) 168 gross tons
Sunk:
Friday November 6, 1998 - Moriches Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:
40°43.506' -72°46.461'

Niagara Falls was bought by the federal government for $750,000 in a fleet-reduction buyout program. The buyout was not for the boat itself, but for its right to fish. The owner was then left to dispose of the vessel as he saw fit.

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Industrial Pollution

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In the United States, industry is the greatest source of pollution, accounting for more than half the volume of all water pollution and for the most deadly pollutants. Some 370,000 manufacturing facilities use huge quantities of freshwater to carry away wastes of many kinds. The waste-bearing water, or effluent, is discharged into streams, lakes, or oceans, which in turn disperse the polluting substances. In its National Water Quality Inventory, reported to Congress in 1996, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded that approximately 40% of the nation's surveyed lakes, rivers, and estuaries were too polluted for such basic uses as drinking supply, fishing, and swimming. The pollutants include grit, asbestos, phosphates and nitrates, mercury, lead, caustic soda and other sodium compounds, sulfur and sulfuric acid, oils, and petrochemicals.

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