Picture yourself in a boat on a river...

Scholarly Journals

Beaulieu, J. J., Shuster, W. D., & Rebholz, J. A. (2010). Nitrous Oxide Emissions from a Large, Impounded River: The Ohio River. Environmental Science & Technology, 44(19), 7527-7533. Retrieved July 21, 2011

Lewis, J.. (2008, September). What's Wrong with the Way the Environmental Protection Agency Is Being Run-and What Can Be Done to Fix It. E: the Environmental Magazine, 19(5), 36,38.  Retrieved July 21, 2011, from Research Library. (Document ID: 1559558831).

Other sources

Associated Press. (2007, October 9). power firm agrees to record pollution cleanup. Retrieved July 21, 2011, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21198255/ns/us_newsenvironment/t/power-firm-agrees-record-pollution-cleanup/

summary of the clean water act. (1972). Retrieved July 19, 2011, from EPA website:

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/laws/cwa.html

2010 annual report. (n.d.). In ORSANCO annual report. Retrieved from http://www.orsanco.org/images/stories/files/annualReport/2010annualreport.pdf

Thesis/ hook

The Ohio River and many of its adjacent historical landmarks have fallen into disarray over the past century, what can be done today to limit the damage and preserve the quality of these American icons?  John Lennon famously asked the world to; “Picture yourself in a boat on a river” My river is the Ohio, and my boat, well isn’t really a boat, instead the Louisville waterfront.