The key phrase here is "IN the Wabash".

I wouldn't eat a fish out of that toxic sludge if you paid me to.

Paolo wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:15 am The key phrase here is "IN the Wabash".

I wouldn't eat a fish out of that toxic sludge if you paid me to.

Flush TWICE. It is a long way to Evansville...

A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:13 am Flush TWICE. It is a long way to Evansville...

In all seriousness, the river is not nearly as polluted as it used to be. Years and years of Republican political control has chased off all of the industry..........

So is this the same Wabash that Jim Neighbors sings about every year at the Indy 500?

and everybody cheers?

River

Pretty much, yeah.

Full of rusty old car wrecks and all the sewage from Terre Haute north up to Ft. Wayne or so...

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:14 am So is this the same Wabash that Jim Neighbors sings about every year at the Indy 500?

and everybody cheers?

River

Not too bad now. It has benefited much from the Clean Water Act. It always has clay soil run-off and so it can look dirty, unless it

Paolo wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:30 pm is during a drought and you can see the sandy bottom...

Pretty much, yeah.

Full of rusty old car wrecks and all t

he sewage from Terre Haute north up to Ft. Wayne or so...

Not so much sewage these days. Not so much industrial waste, either. (Thank you, Democrats!) As I said, the Republicans have chased off all of the industry to pollute the Third World.

However, Paolo, I know where there are not one but TWO steam locomotives buried in the river silt under a railroad bridge. Rumor has it that there is still a body in one of them. They have been there since the late 1800's and early 1900's.