The Blue River: A Case Study

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“It’s not hard you just have to take the time to try”- John Craddock was able to completely turn around the White River in Muncie indiana by eliminating the waste coming from major factory producers. If there is one thing I would love to be done in my hometown it would be monitoring and coming up with peaceful solutions to eliminate water pollution in our own small river: the Blue River.
In the small town of Columbia City in northeastern Indiana, there are a multitude of billboards and media promoting the “historic town” that was put on the map as the world’s number one producer of blue jeans in 1932. The Blue Bell Jeans Factory was settled next to the rightfully named Blue River and employed a third of the small town. After growing and merging

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