(Michael Makela) wrote in
om:

Even though many streams in say New York or PA are a hundred miles or
more away from the Great Metropolis, the water is/was devasted by misc
problems from Acid rain, to polution, from factories supporting the
cities, to mining from over-forresting, to over-fishing.

Don't forget my personal fave, channelization for flood control. Those poor
*******s on Catherines Creek still don't know what hit them.

Scott