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• Source: Louisville Courier-Journal
• Date: September 21, 2008
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• Bylines: James Bruggers
• Topics: Environment
• Data Types: State Data , Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: A four-month Courier-Journal examination has found other factors bear even more of the blame for problems along the paths of the creek's three forks - the Muddy, the Middle and the South. They include: Physical changes. Over the decades, the creek has been dug up, moved and straightened - with some stretches even put in concrete, making it more like a drainage ditch than a natural waterway. Urban runoff. In some neighborhoods, more than 80 percent of the ground around the creek has been paved or built upon. Oxmoor Center, for example, is built over it. That means that even a moderate rain deposits pollutants from parking lots, roads and lawns - and can trigger a torrent into the creek, causing severe bank erosion
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