By Bill Sharpsteen
ISBN-10: 0520256603
ISBN-13: 9780520256606
Soiled Water is the riveting tale of the way Howard Bennett, a l. a. schoolteacher with a present for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollutants in Santa Monica Bay--and received. the tale starts off in 1985, whilst many scientists thought of the bay to be essentially the most polluted our bodies of water on the planet. The insecticide DDT coated parts of the ocean ground. l. a. discharged partly taken care of sewage into its waters. Lifeguards got here down with mysterious health problems. And Howard Bennett fortunately swam in it each morning. unintentionally, Bennett realized that la had utilized for a waiver from the fresh Water Act to proceed discharging sewage into the bay. Incensed that he have been swimming in soiled water, Bennett prepared oddball coalition to orchestrate stunts similar to wrapping brown ribbon round LA's urban corridor and issuing soiled rest room Awards to chastise the city's management. this is often the fast moving tale of ways this strange forged of characters created an environmental move in l. a. that maintains to at the present time with the nationally famous Heal the Bay. Character-driven, compelling, and uplifting, soiled Water tells how even the main polluted water will be wiped clean up-by traditional humans.
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Dr. Rimmon Fay added the triple-eyed peeper to the freak show of fish he had pulled from Santa Monica Bay as proof that the waters off Southern California were disastrously polluted. In the jar of horrors that he took to various government hearings on the bay during the early 1980s, he showed off fish with other, more common afflictions too— cancerous black tumors, deformed spines, and fin rot—all caused, he said, by the barely treated sewage pouring into the bay every day. The pickled white croakers stared at the unmoved officials, who invariably figured these pathetic corpses didn’t speak for the bay’s overall health, which they thought was pretty good.
One of the first people he spoke to was Janet Bridgers, who, along with her husband, Patrick Wall, ran Eco Features Syndicate, a news syndicate devoted to environmental stories. They had in fact sent out articles earlier that year, including one written by Rim Fay detailing the bay’s polluted condition. Bridgers suggested Bennett form a coalition and make it clear this was a widespread movement encompassing potentially thousands of people. The rabble was being roused. Or, more to the point, they were voters who didn’t like what they saw and wanted it changed.
Working out of a converted Long Beach carpet warehouse on the Pacific Coast Highway, the researchers themselves—many with PhDs or master’s degrees— churned out thick reports filled with data collected in field research or from some of the most sensitive instruments available at the time for sniffing out pollutants.
Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays by Bill Sharpsteen
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