Connecticut River
Personal memory by Martha McCormick
1960 • Northampton, MA, USA
When my family would swim in the Connecticut river back in the late 1950's early 1960's. We would some times see raw sewage. It was being dumped up river from Northampton, or for all I really know, from Northampton. The river now is clean and full of recreational boaters, swimmers, rowers .
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