Lake Erie In The 1960's, Cleveland

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We all need to help our lakes. Right now lake Erie and other water sources have dangerous Algae Blooms that's corrupting the water that's in them. In the past we have polluted our streams like in 1960’s. We just kept dumping pollutants from factories in Lake Erie, and the government payed no attention to it.
But two good things happened in 1972. The first was Congress and they passed a thing called the “Clean Water Act”. It was to decrease the amount of pollution going into Lake Erie. As well, the U.S. and Canada signed the “Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement” to as well help with the pollution going into, not just Lake Erie but all of the great lakes.
Before that in the 1960’s, Cleveland took steps to improve its sewer system.

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