12/21/2023 0 Comments Tidal river![]() Three years later, the Connecticut River received a designation as an American Heritage River, and it remains protected as just one of 14 rivers in the country to be recognized as such.The Tidal River is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the Wilsons Promontory region of the Australian state of Victoria. Thanks to new legislation in 1995, the entire Connecticut River watershed became the Silvio O. Additional legislation targeting the cleanup of the Connecticut River helped increase the quality of the surrounding environment, slowly bringing back schools of shad and herring to the river, and in 1989, the nesting of bald eagles for the first time in over a century. In 1973, public pressure helped bring about the creation of the Connecticut River Gateway Commission, which monitors standards for development of riverfront land. In 1965, actress (and Connecticut Resident) Katharine Hepburn narrated the documentary The Long Tidal River, in which she called the Connecticut River “the world’s most beautifully landscaped cesspool.” This film helped spark a burgeoning environmental movement in New England that called for the creation of more sewage treatment plants and tighter restrictions on industries polluting the environment. The once pristine waterway was now a river of flowing toxins. The end of the Second World War brought with it the introduction of new chemical dyes and pesticides, which the river proved incapable of assimilating. Agricultural run-off from commercial farming and, in particular, the valley’s thriving tobacco industry, further polluted the river. The abuse heaped upon the river continued into the 20th century. Industries diverted the natural flow of the river in order to generate power, while dumping industrial wastes that threatened to destroy fragile ecological environments downstream. ![]() While farming and logging had caused tremendous upheaval to the Connecticut River Valley in centuries prior, industrialization accelerated these processes on a massive scale. Industrialization in the 1800s introduced an entirely new array of influences that reshaped how people utilized the river. ![]() 19th-Century Industry Transforms the River By the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the river boasted a robust shipbuilding industry and became a vital route for transporting lumber. The Connecticut River’s importance as a trade route continued to increase, with English settlers moving up into New Hampshire and Vermont in search of pelts and other marketable goods. Over the next two years, another group of settlers from Massachusetts, and one which came from England, came to the area and formed what eventually became the colony of Connecticut. ![]() The group passed the Dutch fort located at modern-day Hartford and established a trading post of their own, just south of where the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers came together. Despite being offered incentives to establish a presence in the river valley, the English initially expressed little interest until September 26, 1633, when a group of Plymouth settlers under William Holmes sailed up the Connecticut River. As early as 1631, Native groups who lived along the river traveled up to the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies seeking to strengthen their position against the growing economic and political power of the Pequot-Dutch trading alliance. Developing trade relations among indigenous groups and the new arrivals became more complicated with the establishment of English colonies in Massachusetts. The first Europeans, the Dutch, arrived in what is now Connecticut around 1614. Native American plummet or netsinker from the Windsor area – Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Norris Bull Collection ![]()
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