Pollution from "summary" of BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS by WILLIAM W. WARNER
Pollution, a term that hangs around the waterman like a cloud, like the sulfurous fumes that rise from the stacks of the paper mills, the sewage treatment plants, the chemical plants along the Potomac and the Patuxent. It is a word that has come to mean all the things that man has done to befoul the rivers and bays of the Chesapeake. The waterman knows about pollution. He has seen the floating bodies of drowned cattle, the oil slicks, the slicks of sewage, the foam of detergents. He has seen the gleaming bodies of striped bass, their gills clogged with silt, their bellies full of trash. He has seen the crabs, the soft crabs, the hard crabs, the crabs with their shells covered with sores, their claws deformed, their meat tainted. He has seen the oysters, the oysters smothered in silt, the oysters riddled with dis...
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