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• n  a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
  the river was navigable for 50 miles

• My river, the Kanawha River, which goes through Charleston, WV, is in a beautiful mountain setting but clogged full of coal and chemical plant pollution.
• In towns bordering the river, sewage systems that once were regularly flushed out by the flooding and subsequent receding of the river have become badly clogged.
• ALMOST every great city has a river.

News & Articles

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• River Floods Willimantic Softball Fields
  Willimantic River backs up drain into softball field Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  June 13, 2013 - NBC Connecticut
• Charles River’s 2013 Client Conference Showcases End-to-End, Investment Management Solution
  Charles River, an enterprise-wide, front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that over 600 attendees from 18 countries participated in its 2013 Client Conference, held June 9 - 12 in Boston.
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• River Forest braces for high winds, rain, hail
  RIVER FOREST — Public works crews are on alert in River Forest and Oak Park as the National Weather Service is warning of heavy rain and “damaging winds” up to 75 miles per hour, along with the possibility of baseball-sized hail. River Forest Public Works Director Phil Cotter said an 11 a.m. weather update called for “around an inch of rain” in the afternoon, with another two to three inches ...
  June 12, 2013 - River Forest Forest Leaves

Quotes

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• Sylvester Stallone in Forbes
  This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams,Stallone said. "All the trails are mined. The only way into Burma is up the river."
• Michael Bloomberg in FOXNews
  The pilot "did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then making sure that everybody got out," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "He walked the plane twice after everybody else was off, and tried to verify that there was nobody...
• President Bush in Kansas City Star
  I remind my fellow citizens that family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River, that there are decent, hardworking honorable citizens of Mexico who want to make a living for their families,Bush said.