The Mighty Ohio River iconic, historic and it should be environmentally protected from wastewater and sewage pollution by stricter federal government standards. The American Indians called it the Great River for a reason. The abundance of wildlife helped them to survive as a people. We all had better wake up because some cities take water from it to purify for our drinking water to survive as a people. The American Indians are people we can all learn a great deal from in order to survive if we would only recognize them and respect them and honor them as the real First Americans! We The People! It's part of the U.S. Constitution and they are a part of our heritage as a Nation! God bless the U.S.A.
At the confluence the Ohio is over 281,500 cubic feet/ second, Mississippi is 208,200 cubic feet/ second. Also if you look at sattilite view you can see that the lower mississippi is a continuation of the Ohio stream with the upper Mississippi being a tributary. Main reason they did not name it that way is continueing of the native american naming by the early cartagraphers and the natives considered the Mississipi the longer river. Oddly enough at the confluence of the Mississipi and Missouri the is the longer river but normally has slightly less flow but at times much more flow but early cartographers and the natives of the area did not realize the true length of the Missouri.
The Ohio River is a misnomer as none of it actually belongs to Ohio (or Indiana or Illinois, for that matter). Kentucky & West Virginia (by using Virginia's original territorial claim & admittance to the Union) claim the highwater mark still after all the locks and dams created higher water pools.
@@bigtobacco1098 They still can under certain conditions. If they have a major precipitation event and that they have combined sanitary and storm seres systems. The EPA is helping cities either split the systems or create storage capacity until the event is done.
Mostly thanks to Kentucky who has polluted and poisoned the Ohio River more than the other states bordering it. Kentucky has been a horrible steward of the Ohio River.
