Is the Mississippi river poluated??

Answer 1

The simple answer would be yes. But there's not a river on this planet that doesn't contain some pollution. I live 2 miles from the Mississippi river in northeast Missouri and spend a lot of time on it. The river in this area is not in the danger zone. However the Mississippi river is 2320 miles long. Within the border of Missouri three major rivers enter the Mississippi, the Illinois,Missouri and Ohio each carrying their own pollution. So the 2320 mile long answer is this. The farther south you go the more polluted the Mississippi becomes.

Answer 2

Pollution levels probably vary in the Mississippi depending on at which exact point you are measuring them; if the flow level is great you may have a bit less pollution than where the flow is smaller; downstream from cities and towns you will probably measure higher pollution levels of different things, coliform levels from sewage waters,E.Coli and other pollutants I guess from animal farmland, land fertilizers (natural and all) are also pretty bad polluters, heavy metals like lead and copper can come from companies, mercury, these are all things than can be very dangerous to you or the fragile ecosystem in that part of the river...oils, I know it sounds tremendous, but some kinds of pollution are actually probably getting better, just think of how we used to just dump all the raw sewage waters in to river directly, when we treat these waters, sometimes their pollution levels are actually smaller than the pollution levels of the river, and big companies often have the means to decontaminate the waters they dump (just have to make sure they do this...), Pig manure water CAN be treated before it seeps into the river; so it really depends on us, I know there's a lot more I just wrote what came to my mind first.

Answer 3

Polluted? Of course.

Answer 4

of course it is in america and there dont care about pollution