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stormdogOh lord, I missed this the first time through. It's hard to concentrate on microfilm for prolonged periods and not start missing things. But as I read through my prints tonight I found this amazing piece from the Kenosha Evening News in March of 1959.
"The city waste department is dumping its trash into the basin now. It would take five years to fill the basin using trash collections alone." But that was too slow. As well as saying that the city would try to acquire fill dirt to add to the trash, the paper says "Citizens and contractors desiring to to dispose of non-burnable rubbish are asked to dump in the basin area instead."
So basically, the city started filling in the creek by dumping garbage into it. But there wasn't enough, so they asked citizens to simply come by and dump more garbage themselves. Right into the creek!
Poor old creek. From the mid-19th century to the early 20th, it was the dumping grounds for the biggest tannery in the world. After that, it was a dumping ground for the city. In fact, I figured out tonight via map overlays that the current dump at 50th and Sheridan has been a dump at least since the '50s and is right on top of the old riverbed. And *then* the city decided to actually use raw garbage as landfill!
Makes me wonder what's under all that land right now....
"The city waste department is dumping its trash into the basin now. It would take five years to fill the basin using trash collections alone." But that was too slow. As well as saying that the city would try to acquire fill dirt to add to the trash, the paper says "Citizens and contractors desiring to to dispose of non-burnable rubbish are asked to dump in the basin area instead."
So basically, the city started filling in the creek by dumping garbage into it. But there wasn't enough, so they asked citizens to simply come by and dump more garbage themselves. Right into the creek!
Poor old creek. From the mid-19th century to the early 20th, it was the dumping grounds for the biggest tannery in the world. After that, it was a dumping ground for the city. In fact, I figured out tonight via map overlays that the current dump at 50th and Sheridan has been a dump at least since the '50s and is right on top of the old riverbed. And *then* the city decided to actually use raw garbage as landfill!
Makes me wonder what's under all that land right now....
