Fifty years ago, thousands of volunteers descended on the Blackstone River, removing tons of trash from banks of the waterway that stretches from Massachusetts to Rhode Island in what became the largest single-day regional environmental clean-up in American history.
The program, dubbed Zap the Blackstone or Operation Zap, began in 1972, the year the Clean Water Act was passed. It set off an environmental movement in the region.
Today, the water is much cleaner than it used to be, thanks to the reduction of industrial and commercial effluent and improved practices from wastewater treatment plants, but projects like…
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