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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Stops in Seymour, then Ansonia, CT to visit the amazing Farrel Foundry & Machine Corp.
Hard to imagine spending millions for any type of redevelopment at this or any location along the Naugatuck, to be left with a front row seat or within sniffing distance of such a polluted, noxious, and foul smelling waterway - especially at the falls in Seymour. So sad.
I was looking forward to a nice viewing experience after reading the Naugatuck River Greenway sign at the Tingue Dam ( the falls ) : “A Regional Vision”, and the "Remarkable Recovery" part, complete with the "come back claim" referring to a cleaned up river. The reality is: this river is as polluted as it has been for decades. This is no destination for anglers or paddlers.
As a dis-service to Paul Pawlak, Sr., ( no mention about his local contributions anywhere ) the fish bypass ladder, which was named after him, was so dry, fish would have to walk up it to get to the next level. Large bushes had grown in the ladder channel as further evidence it had not flowed water for years. I suspect now, it wasn't needed anyway since no fish could possibly survive in those waters, nor would anyone upstream, want to catch or eat them. We need more people like Judge George Wheeler ( R.I.P.):
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Jack Delano was one of eleven photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, to document the U.S. war effort ( WWII ) in these industrial towns and their factories. He took the black and whites featured here in Nov. 1940.
His pictures, used as a part of this video, were copied from the Library of Congress web site - Prints & Photographs Division,. They serve to show how hard, dangerous and dirty working at a foundry - this foundry - can be, and to honor those that did that work.
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