Sunday, March 20, 2011

News roundup 3/30/11

I must have not been paying attention the past decade or so. Posters for the 11th annual Ohio River Way Paddlefest are for sale. As described by cincinnati.com, Paddlefest is "the largest annual canoe/kayak paddling event in the Midwest, involving more than 2,000 paddling their way down the Ohio River." This year's event is June 23-25. It sounds like something I'd like to see. ...


This question comes up ever so often, and now it's being faced on  the Allegheny River. At what point do the locks and dams on the smaller tributaries of the Ohio River become too expensive to operate and maintain, considering their age and traffic levels? ...


Did you know that the world's first commercial nuclear facility dedicated solely to generating electricity went into operation on the banks of the Ohio River more than 50 years ago? I didn't either. ...


Officials in Indiana and Illinois are debating the justification -- economic and otherwise -- of building plants to make natural gas from coal. One of the proposed plants is a $2.65 billion project along the Ohio River at Rockport, Ind. ...


Oh. Spring officially begins this evening around or shortly after suppertime, I'm told. Hooray. Now if we can just get the river to go down and the banks to dry out.

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