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Cuyahoga (kī'əhō`gə), river, c.80 mi (130 km) long, flowing SW through Cuyahoga Falls, then N to Lake Erie, NE Ohio, forming part of Cleveland harbor. By the late 1960s, the Cuyahoga was one of the most polluted rivers in the United States and a major contributor to the deterioration of Lake Erie. Antipollution measures were implemented, and by the late 1970s the status of the Cuyahoga was much improved. Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area was established in 1974 in the river valley between Akron and Cleveland (see National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments
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Forty-five years after Ohio's Cuyahoga River "caught fire," making the Lake Erie tributary a poster child for environmental cleanup, a raft of agencies is lining up to fix problems in the Great Lakes that persist to this day. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a producer of color and additive masterbatches, has purchased Color and Additive Technologies, Inc. In 2002, Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga County (2000 population 1,393,978 of whom 1,302,982 were [greater than or equal to] 5 years of age) reported 221 laboratory-confirmed cases of WNV illness, including 155 WNND cases (111 cases/million population) with 11 deaths from July 30 to October 3. |
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