Pollution in the Bronx and Hudson River

Pollution in the Bronx and Hudson River

Pollution in the Bronx and Hudson River

The Bronx River

The Bronx River is a river of New York, 38 km long and located in the borough of the Bronx. The Indians called the river Aquahung before the arrival of European settlers, including Jonas Bronck who landed in 1639 and gave its name to the river and the neighborhood. The river originates in the Kensico Reservoir, located in Westchester County, in upstate New York. The Bronx River then flows south through White Plains and south-west through the cities of Edgemont, Tuckahoe and Bronxville. The river then separates Yonkers and Mount Vernon, before arriving in the Bronx, where it crosses the Bronx Park, and the New York Botanical Garden. The Bronx River then flows into the East River, which empties itself into the Atlantic Ocean. During the nineteenth and twentieth century's, the river was a sewer in which industrial waste was dumped each day. Malrgé the decline of manufacturing area, the river continues to receive waste from communities living along its shores. But recently, associations for the defense of nature, including the Bronx River Alliance have taken measures to fight against this pollution and to the watercourse to its original purity. The cleanliness of the river became one of the priorities of Senator Jose Serrano débloqua $ 14.6 million in federal funds to rehabilitate the river, where many cities of Westchester County continued to pour their waters worn intermittently. Accordingly, 28 November 2006, the towns of Scarsdale, White Plains, Greenburgh and Mount Vernon are committed by contract to stop this pollution. One of the first mills on the shores of the river is the Lorillard Tobacco Mill, which is now located in the New York Botanical Garden (O'Connor, 2007).

In the slums of the United States landfills and stinking factories often lie close together. The people there have suffered from significant pollution, the environmental racism. In the South Bronx, now a green co-worker has declared war on the garbage the fight. There is a paved square. Highways overlap here, piled carelessly over the other. Hispanic, African American and white workers push from subway exits; some disappear in fast food and discount stores. Among them is Jerad, he is black. The South Bronx, he says, was his life. Long he had worked at the municipal landfill over in Hunts Point. "That's the worst part of the Bronx. Filth and garbage is everywhere. The butts are over there. Everything wants to get rid of anyone going after Hunt's Point. There are 15, 20 landfills, from there the waste then goes to the landfill. It is the worst area”. Jerad was overlooking the East River on the Manhattan skyline. From there trucks are constantly in the South Bronx. Each week there will be alone, 20,000 garbage trucks, which temporarily store their garbage in the "transfer stations", the garbage dumps of Hunts Point. Hunts Point, a neighborhood - divided into square ...