But as a thing of beauty, the Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization—raw sewage and industrial wastes —until the great stream became an open sewer.

The Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project will pollute the Ohio River and put more than a dozen ... of Interstates 71 and 75 – plus 2 acres of streams and 2.4 acres of wetland, the coalition ...