For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.
Experts say the stretch of river is one of the most dangerous along the 2, 500-mile-long river.
The Environment Agency, prosecuting, said at least 47 fish died and 100 more were "observed in distress" on the 2.29 miles (3.7km) stretch of river.
In Lukang itself, though the races take place along an unprepossessing stretch of river by a noisy motorway, large crowds gathered to cheer and stuff themselves.
At the end of last week police began detailed searches of a stretch of river between Leckwith Hill bridge and the mouth of the River Ely near Cardiff Bay Yacht Club.
His father died in September 2004, and Manglik attended the funeral, watching his dad's ashes sink into the same stretch of river where the elder Manglik had swum as a boy.
South Wales Police said the stretch of river between Leckwith Hill bridge and the mouth of the River Ely near Cardiff Bay Yacht Club will be the area searched on Thursday for Mr Thompson, who is a worker at South Hook LNG gas plant in Pembrokeshire.
It's estimated the red cloud of heavy metals is now affecting a 30km (19-mile) stretch of the River Danube.
Construction work on a 2.2 mile (3.5km) stretch of the River Aire is expected to begin later this year.
This has included a stretch of the River Aire from Saltaire to Shipley and the drains outside Mr Griffiths' flat.
The Environment Agency said it would close the Thames Barrier near the London stretch of the river again on Thursday evening after reopening it at 15:00 GMT.
The LRS said it would also be working closely with the Environment Agency on the project, as the stretch of the River Dee is home to salmon and freshwater mussels.
Det Supt Sukhbir Singh told the inquest a small part of her spine was found in the same stretch of the river as where the remains of Ms Blamires were discovered.
Transatlantic tales of overflowing lagoons depositing industrial quantities of waste into local rivers and waterways do little to inspire confidence (one spill in 2005 killed 375, 000 fish and contaminated a 20-mile stretch of a river in New York state).
The Environment Agency said the Sheffield Lower Don Valley Flood Protection Project would involve repairs to existing defences, as well as "raising walls and reinforcing existing structures along a stretch of the River don between Nursery Street in Sheffield and Blackburn Brook near the M1".
Markus Hecher is the owner of Burg Rheinstein, a castle on a scenic stretch of the Rhine River that dates back to the 13th century.
An MTA spokesman said late Monday night that water had reached into all five subway tubes that stretch under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Steinway tube between Midtown and Queens.
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All that remains unresolved is a small stretch along the Amur River near the Russian city of Khabarovsk, where three small river islands, no more than 12 sq km in total, are not yet covered by treaty.
Another fire broke out Monday and burned three structures along a 5-mile stretch of the San Juan River in far northwestern New Mexico.
"This resulted in a 33km stretch of the brook, the River Cledan, the River Irfon and the Wye being polluted with silt, impacting on water quality, " said an agency spokesperson.
The august colleges, hushed quadrangles, manicured lawns and cobbled laneways give way to "The Backs, " a stretch of picturesque gardens bordering the meandering River Cam.
His ongoing effort to stretch six miles of fabric over the Arkansas River has proven even more epic, proving so contentious that locals recently took the Bureau of Land Management to court for sanctioning it.
Chemicals leaked into a Cambridgeshire river have wiped out the majority of invertebrates along the affected stretch, the Environment Agency said.
Occasional wineries punctuate the final stretch before the postcard-worthy village, with its river-meets-mountain vistas and deserted streets flanked with countrified guesthouses.
About 5, 000 gallons of oil has spilled into the River Lark in Bury St Edmunds, polluting a 2.5 mile stretch.
The Royal Docks is a stretch of land in east London running from Stratford down the River Lea to the Thames, and is already home to the ExCeL exhibition and convention centre and London City Airport.
The bus swerved on a stretch of road, lost control and plummeted 400 metres from a cliff into the Sunkosi river, police told the BBC.
But this is a street that as its name suggests is right on the river and substantially below the rest of elevated downtown Memphis, with no homes or businesses on its riverfront stretch.
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