Period+9+-+Donora

** The "Donora Death Fog" October 30th through 31st 1948

Donora PA is a city in Washington County, near Pittsburg, on the western bank of the Monongahela River.

** **//Details of the Event://**
 * Killed 20, left hundreds seriously injured or dying
 * An unusually dense fog also occurred during this time, kept in place by the hills surrounding the river. This probably helped to hold the pollution close to the ground.
 * //Causes of the Event://**
 * Caused by fluoride emissions from Donora Zinc Works and steel plants with open hearth furnaces owned by the U.S. Steel Corporation
 * There was also a zinc smelting plant and a sulfuric acid plant, slag dumps, coal-burning steam locomotives, and river boats.
 * Officials tried to cover up the role fluoride played in the tragedy.
 * //Legislation://**
 * The incident at Donora spawned the first calls for national legislation to protect the public from industrial air pollution.
 * This includes PA's "Environmental Bill of Rights" and the national Clean Air Act, both passed in 1970.
 * A few years later, Pennsylvania also established the Department of Environmental Resources; today we have the Department of Environmental Protection.

"The Donora event, coupled with some similar disasters, had a cumulative effect that led ultimately to the Clean Air Act." -Frank O'Donnell, executive director of the Clean Air Trust

**//Death in Donora//** I have felt the fog in my throat -- The misty hand of Death caress my face; I have wrestled with a frightful foe Who strangled me with wisps of gray fog-lace. Now in my eyes since I have died. The bleak, bare hills rise in stupid might With scars of its slavery imbedded deep; And the people still live -- still live -- in the poisonous night. -- John P. Clark

Sources Cited [and images]:
 * http://www.docheritage.state.pa.us/documents/donora.asp
 * http://www.fluoridation.com/donora.htm
 * http://www.pollutionissues.com/Co-Ea/Donora-Pennsylvania.html --Image of street
 * http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/heritage/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=533403#deadly
 * http://www.eoearth.org/article/Donora,_Pennsylvania --Image of Mill
 * http://www.deq.mt.gov/AirMonitoring/citguide/natl_events_trends.asp --Image of sketch


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