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Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal

Index Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal

The Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is an artificial waterway on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in East Chicago, Indiana, which connects the Grand Calumet River to Lake Michigan. [1]

39 relations: Acre, ArcelorMittal, BP, Bulkhead (barrier), Calumet River, Canal, Chicago Reader, Chromium, Clayton Mark, Dredging, East Chicago, Indiana, Environmental justice, Grand Calumet River, Great Lakes Areas of Concern, Harbor, Heavy metals, Hectare, Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Light, Indiana University, Inland Steel Company, International Steel Group, Iron, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, Lake Michigan, Lead, Limestone, Ling-Temco-Vought, Marktown, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, Short ton, Taconite, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Whiting, Indiana, Youngstown Sheet and Tube.

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.

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ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourgish multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Bulkhead (barrier)

A bulkhead is a retaining wall, such as a bulkhead within a ship or a watershed retaining wall.

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Calumet River

The Calumet River is a system of heavily industrialized rivers and canals in the region between the neighborhood of South Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and the city of Gary, Indiana.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Clayton Mark

Clayton Mark (June 30, 1858 – July 7, 1936), one of the pioneer makers of steel pipe in the United States, was an industrialist in the Chicago area who founded the Mark Manufacturing Company in 1888, a firm for the fabrication and sale of water-well supplies and Clayton Mark and Company in 1900.

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Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.

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East Chicago, Indiana

East Chicago is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States.

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Environmental justice

Environmental justice emerged as a concept in the United States in the early 1980s.

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Grand Calumet River

The Grand Calumet River is a river that flows primarily into Lake Michigan.

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Great Lakes Areas of Concern

Great Lakes Areas of Concern are designated geographic areas within the Great Lakes Basin that show severe environmental degradation.

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Harbor

A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences; synonyms: wharves, haven) is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked.

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Heavy metals

Heavy metals are generally defined as metals with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad is a Class III railroad in the United States.

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Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Light

The Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Light is an active aid to navigation that marks the end of a breakwater on the east side of the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal where it enters Lake Michigan.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Inland Steel Company

The Inland Steel Company was a U.S. steel company active in 1893–1998.

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International Steel Group

International Steel Group (ISG) was an American steel company, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio which was established by the New York investment firm WL Ross & Co.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Jones and Laughlin Steel Company

The Jones and Laughlin Steel Company began as the American Iron Company, founded in 1852 by Bernard Lauth and B. F. Jones, a few miles (c 4 km) south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Ling-Temco-Vought

Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) was a large US conglomerate which existed from 1961 to 2000.

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Marktown

Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

A polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) is an organic chlorine compound with the formula C12H10−xClx.

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, also polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons) are hydrocarbons—organic compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen—that are composed of multiple aromatic rings (organic rings in which the electrons are delocalized).

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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.

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Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899

The Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 is the oldest federal environmental law in the United States.

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Short ton

The short ton is a unit of weight equal to.

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Taconite

Taconite (IPA) is a variety of iron formation, an iron-bearing (over 15% iron) sedimentary rock, in which the iron minerals are interlayered with quartz, chert, or carbonate.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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Whiting, Indiana

Whiting is a city located in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in Lake County, Indiana, which was founded in 1889.

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Youngstown Sheet and Tube

The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was an American steel manufacturer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Harbor_and_Ship_Canal

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