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The Great Lakes

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Reverse the River and Flood the Mississippi River

"It seems like a mad scientist plan to me to reverse the Chicago river and flood, you know, like it's crazy. And get the death ray out," he says. "Using Madison Square Garden with the reversed river, reverse the Hudson River and flood the ... Chelsea Piers." The main new pollution problem is invasive species of fish called Asian carp that do not live there normally but would like eat everything if they were allowed to live there.

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