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44 . Little Juniata River
Location: Central Pennsylvania, about a 1-hour ride from Harrisburg; a 2½-hour ride from Pittsburgh; and a 3-hour ride from Philadelphia. Full-service airports are available in all three cities.
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50,000—dumped raw sewage and industrial waste directly into the river. A large paper mill in Tyrone added color and foam to the mix. The Clean Water Act of 1972 brought about significant changes to the way we treated our rivers—including the Little Juniata. Within a few years, three modern wastewater treatment plants were built on the river, and the pulp mill was closed.
Then Hurricane Agnes flushed the watershed with an epic flood in 1972. When the floodwaters receded, the Little Juniata flowed clear and cold for the first time in over a hundred years. Wild brown trout living in the unpolluted tributaries, including Tipton Run and Spruce Creek, rapidly populated the once-barren Little Juniata from Tyrone to Barree. The brown trout from Spruce Creek are remnants from early stockings of fish obtained from Germany in the 1890s. Trout numbers grew fast in this big, newly hospitable river.
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