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there used to be many "stinking" creeks in MD, esp after a heavy rain.
Take it from a MD based WW kayaker of 30 years(me). Thankfully all have been fixed with the local sewage treatment plants, when before is was just dump it in the stream. One was George's Creek in Allegheny County...notorious...a great run after a heavy rain but Toxic if you had a cut or got some of that water up your nose.
To put this in perspective...I grew up just north of NYC. In small town on the Hudson River...home of a Annaconda Wire and Cable plant...Bill Moyers devoted an hour to what they dumped into the River.
When I was in Catholic elementary school, before they killed Kennedy, our ClassTrip took a Day Liner around the Island of Manhattan. Us boys kept count of river Trout that we saw (River Trout - Condoms), much to the embarrassment of the Franciscan Nuns.
NYC put in a 125th Street sewage treatment plant sometime in the late 60's/early 1970's. Before that it was RAW out into the Hudson from the tubes at 125th Street.
So "stinking creek" dosen't really mean "boonedocks".
SAVE THE BAY....hahaha. Everbody Stop Taking a Sheit. Just Hold it until you get to another State.
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