The Part of the Chicago River with Exploding Flammable Bubbles

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DaMuncher

21 күн бұрын

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@ZombieGrandpa 2 күн бұрын

Changing the flow of the water would be a typical Engineering feat of the day. These people still held the dreams of the Victorian era in their minds- nothing was impossible.

@josephosheavideos3992 11 күн бұрын

While you had some good points in your video, overall it was incomplete. For one thing, the Chicago Ship & Sanitary Canal has been the permanent solution since 1900 to keeping industrial waste from flowing from the Chicago River into Lake Michigan. Two, pollution levels in the Chicago River have dropped dramatically in the last 50 years, including in Bubbly Creek (which is the part of the South Branch of the Chicago River which was bypassed in the construction of the S&S Canal). While Bubbly Creek does occasionally bubble on hot summer days, this is becoming increasingly rare. In fact, today the Chicago Park District operates a marina on the creek, which has become quite popular for kayaking and canoeing.

@Da_Muncher 11 күн бұрын

Couldn't agree more! I just more or less wanted to spread the basic history of it and I was bound to miss some things as I also didn't read the Upton Sinclair novel either. Regardless, I appreciate you for spreading more knowledge. Also you can see those kayaks right behind me that you mentioned.

@salvor1 2 күн бұрын

It's not industrial waste. That was outlawed long ago. What it does carry downstream is treated sewage effluent.

@bambur1 9 күн бұрын

I love how Chicago built the Cal-Sag to reverse the flow of the chicago river. Send all the CRAP downstream 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@giffordiv 13 күн бұрын

The smell must have been terrible. There was a small pig farm off the route of my school bus and that was bad enough.

@WestermanT. 19 күн бұрын

Cool content, keep up the good work mate.

@doowi1182 12 минут бұрын

Great video! I agree with the other commenter that a wireless mic would improve the video quality. Subscribed!

@JeffreyGolota 18 күн бұрын

I like the camera quality. Much better than when you were using the GoPro 👌

@lennychorn147 2 күн бұрын

I remember visiting the stock yards as a kid. That place had a smell that took a week to leave you. Boy did bubbly creek bubble in those days as well.

@Mrbfgray Күн бұрын

Mats of tree leaves in ponds or other slow moving water ways do the same thing, as a kid we'd rake the couple ft deep mud in our pond and light it on fire. I'd bet situation in this vid is tree detritus not ancient 'guts' that would have decayed long ago.

@lennychorn147 Күн бұрын

@@Mrbfgray It was a 150 years of continuous build up, in a river with no curent to speak of. Plus there were also factories discharging toxins into that stretch of river. Then there are the fish that would end up dead and decaying. More than few dead bodies have been found in that river. God only knows how many weren't. The stock yards alone covered more than 12,000 acres. Slaughtering and processing thousands of animals a day.

@Mrbfgray Күн бұрын

@@lennychorn147 Yeah long ago, meanwhile falling leaves a constant and probably the real reason.

@lennychorn147 Күн бұрын

@Mrbfgray The banks were baren for decades. Foliage was just starting to grow about 25 years ago. As they said in the video, it is nothing like it was back in the 70s when the stock yards were all but shut down. Over the last 5 decades, nature was solely restoring the waterway. Foliage does not decompose to the point that you get gases bubbling up 27/7 for 200 years. That an open flame can light ablaze. The river was so polluted that there was no underwater foilage growing until more recent times. I lived just a mile from the worst part of the river. I had to cross it regularly, and it stunk from decay and chemicals.

@Mrbfgray Күн бұрын

@@lennychorn147 It doesn't take 25 yrs, 5 or 10 of leaf fall is enough. Toxins are irrelevant unless they somehow preserved the rot which should have long ago decayed, also it likely requires leaf mats to *contain* the gas enough that it can buildup and bubble noticeably.

@edgein3299 12 күн бұрын

Green Bay had a large packing industry back in the day like Chicago. One packing plant had big blood ponds in the back of it and would overflow into a creek which eventually emptied into the bay. The blood ponds were there for years after the plant closed. Not sure if they’re still there.

@fk4515 7 күн бұрын

Which is interesting even in the 2000’s they had two rendering plants in Green Bay. One was the successor to Green Bay Soap company and the other was associated with Packerland Packing. Green Bay Soap was founded in the 1880s

@kb3byu 6 күн бұрын

At first I thought the bodies were from mob hits

@dr.jamesolack8504 5 күн бұрын

Was thinking the exact same thing.👍

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

That too lol

@herbieschwartz9246 Күн бұрын

In the early 60's I saw the Cuyahoga on fire and the smell would make you puke if you happened to be down wind.

@michaelphelan106 9 күн бұрын

One of the old slaughterhouses in San Francisco was built out over the bay on piles. All of the blood and offal went through holes in the floor into the bay where the sharks and skates feasted on it.

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

I guess that’s a fairly effective way of dealing with it, you might get some obese sharks though lol

@paradiselost9946 2 күн бұрын

@@rlt9492 over weight shark. doop de do overweight shark. doop de do... sorry.

@chaddentandt9868 13 күн бұрын

Very interesting....

@guycore5478 17 күн бұрын

Subscribed!

@Mrbfgray Күн бұрын

Very common in ponds with trees around to produce methane that can be lit on fire. I question "it's guts" when tree leaves do the same thing in slow moving waters. Those guts would have been long gone by now.

@hirofox85 9 күн бұрын

What would happen if they dredged it? Would it create a shit storm?

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

Probably lol

@354sd 4 күн бұрын

Very interesting

@RemoteCamper 2 күн бұрын

They should add aerators to the river.

@VideoNOLA 19 күн бұрын

Fun.

@Astroponicist 5 күн бұрын

the decay of biomass may gross you out but it is a natural process whether the biomass gets there from a butcher plant or a fish die off when normal erosion exposes toxic ore such as salt or sulfur.

@Tomobongo 16 күн бұрын

I have to turn it louder to hear it but then the audio sounds worse

@donjohnson3701 14 күн бұрын

Not real clear on the exploding flammable bubbles? Was that in the past or does it still happen? Does the creek still bubble? Is it a real creek if it doesn’t flow into anything but itself? Wouldn’t that make it a pond?

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

So it does release methane bubbles a little bit still, mostly on hot summer days, and they are much less noticeable. It used to bubble like a jacuzzi in the early 1900s.

@winnon992 8 күн бұрын

The rivers got surface gas seaping out from under ground. I’ve seen this a lot. This has been going on forever.

@paulglawson2866 Сағат бұрын

Read “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair and you won’t eat meats anymore. But at least it broke up the Cattle Trusts and created the Pure Food and Drug Act.

@chicman77 7 күн бұрын

Google the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland that caught fire back in the day

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

That was from petroleum waste though.

@SJR_Media_Group 5 күн бұрын

Creek can be rerouted, drained, dredged, and restored... or just add Piranha... cheers

@danielwilke7574 5 күн бұрын

Isn't the problem that they put a layer of rocks, soil and (under)water plants on top of it. Do piranhas can't even reach it. Plus piranhas have a bad rep in the media so people would freak out if they add them to the ecosystem, even though they are scavengers and only eat already dead stuff. Plus they are tiny, their reputation is really undeserved and people should have more appreciation for this small cleaner fisj

@SJR_Media_Group 5 күн бұрын

@@danielwilke7574 Gotta love Satire... yeah Piranhas bad choice... even if they drained, dredged, and refilled, they haven't solved the other problem... no fresh water coming into a stagnate creek... maybe pump fresh water from lake to head of creek to create an artificial flow... or just fill it in and make a park out of it... oh oh more satire...cheers mate...

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

This is an extremely cold climate despite the way it looks in summer. A tropical fish like piranha won’t survive there.

@SJR_Media_Group 5 күн бұрын

@@rlt9492 Thanks for comment... it was satire... saltwater crocs better choice... oh wait that was satire too... cheers...

@larsonfamilyhouse 2 күн бұрын

But then there’s a river of piranhas smh

@dogstar7 9 сағат бұрын

No, there is no longer biomatter from the time of the Union Stockyards in that section of the river. That is impossible. The river does not "bubble" there. Please stop perpetuating this urban legend.

@GoingtoHecq 9 күн бұрын

I had no idea that conditions were ever so apocalyptic, anywhere, ever. What the heck do you do with such huge loads of waste? Put them in bags and ferment them for rotten corpse methane? That's so much worse than the decay of vegetable matter. This amount of protein and fat is a nightmare to break down. Maybe they could have made fertilizer by dessicating and grinding everything they could but I think bird and bat guano were the main fertilizers of the time.

@ironhell813 8 күн бұрын

You must not be American. Most Americans worry about costs to themselves not the environment, making fertilizer wouldave cost more, and 90% of Americans worry only about what it costs them. Plus this is Chicago we’re talking about, epicentre of this attitude. Laziness+greed+deceit=America

@MrToradragon 3 күн бұрын

Depends, bone based fertilizer was used as source of phosphorus, guano as source of nitrogen. Blood and meat was used as feedstock in production of Potassium ferrocyanide, but I suspect that the amount was simply too big for other industries to process. We should take in account practices in agriculture and costs back then. Maybe due to shire size of the American farms, compared to Europe, meant that the demand for fertilizers was not sufficient as they lower yields were compensated for by larger fields.

@ironhell813 2 күн бұрын

@@MrToradragon there was zero demand for fertilizer then because 90% of people owned farmland and made their own from sod or from cows. They should have incinerated it and provided a service that would have made money to others but Chicago is too selfish to have done that.

@MrToradragon 2 күн бұрын

@@ironhell813 If you have zero demand (or supply is severely exceeding demand) then it would not be profitable, or at least at black zero, to make the fertilizer out of that, and I wouldn't consider company that is not willing to produce something at (significant???) loss as particularly selfish. What I find strange is, on the other hand, that they were throwing away, or at least it seems so from the video, fat that could have been burned.

@visualsynthesis 19 күн бұрын

Thumbs up! Get a mic though

@fk4515 7 күн бұрын

Which is unfortunate, why weren’t they rendering the waste? At the time this happened there was strong demand for tallow and other fat for the manufacture of soap was high and the rendering industry was much more profitable than it is now

@rlt9492 5 күн бұрын

So you’re probably gonna think this is pretty gross but some unsavory characters actually harvested the rancid black fat that floated as bergs on the creek surface and cut them up and rendered them into lard. A whole unregulated cottage industry was in fact based around the fatty sludge that floated on top lol.

@fk4515 4 күн бұрын

@@rlt9492 well heck we were processing trap grand used fryer oil and selling that but we did have the courtesy to declare it inedible