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      Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology Translated title: Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2018, no. 15: Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology

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          In the mid-1960s, growing public concern about the health of the Great Lakes led to a concerted effort to end the practice of dumping dredge spoils into open waters. The Army Corps of Engineers, which conducted or contracted for the dredging of harbors on the United States side of the lakes, developed an alternative: the creation of containment areas along the shore. Behind steel and stone walls that held back pollutants that had accumulated in the silt of industrial and commercial harbors, spoils dried out and created new land. In the case of Cleveland, Ohio, where the terribly polluted Cuyahoga River ensured that spoils would be tainted, the Army Corps created several diked disposal areas—including Dike 14, an 88-acre enclosure on the city’s eastern shore. Even before it was full, the area had begun to transition into a coastal forest, providing habitat for migrating birds and other species. Dike 14 is now known as the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve.

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          Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
          Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
          2018
          21 June 2018
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          10.5282/rcc/8340
          ed895172-bd33-4dea-94cb-cb9855eac914

          CC BY 4.0 2018 David Stradling

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          Literary studies,Philosophy of science,Environmental change,Environmental studies,Contemporary history,Cultural studies
          landscape transformation,environmental movements,pollution,activism,conservation,nature reserves,dikes,lakes,water,water pollution

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