Chattanooga: The story of being the most green city from the most polluted city

One of the most polluted cities of the world was once Chattanooga, which is now one of the green cities of the world. It was not possible in one day or so. Sometimes it seems to the general public that environmental pollution can easily reduce the country's government if it wants. This work is solely the government's own, the people have no responsibility here. But it is only because of the unconsciousness of the common people but pollution.But Chattanooga has come forward to make the pollution free, the people there, local government representatives and the businessmen there. In their collective efforts, an area that was unable to live in a new place had a new life. There has been a time when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the most polluted city in the United States is Chattanooga.

A park in Chattanooga; Image Source: Hargreaves Associates

Not only the EPA, in the 1960's, the United States government announced that Chattanooga was gradually becoming ineligible to live. Especially the air was the most polluted. In this city there was a lot of steel making factory. There were even many types of industrial factories where coke ovens were used. Smoke out of these factories and completely pollute the air there. The pollution was so impressive that at noon, the drivers had to drive cars by lighting the lights in the sunshine.

Not only the wind, this city was also polluted. The city has passed through the city of Tennessee. Calcutta was built around this river. From these places all garbage and toxic industries were removed here. In such a situation, the people of this region were left out of the place due to the inadequacy of the city. The waste of the poisonous material is abandoned in the back of the waste land.There was a time that there was a lot of factories but there was no man, there were plenty of lodging, but the people living there were dwindling, due to which unemployment increased due to non-production and the city gradually became a refuge for criminals. That is, the city had all the qualities of being a deserted place.

One of the most polluted cities in the world was Chattanuga; Image Source: DetailXPerts

When it started to grow slowly, some people came forward to save their city. In 1984, some officials of the city decided to make their Chattanooga city free from pollution and make them deserving of living environment. They started a process, which was an emergency gathering every week with those living in Chattanooga.The name of this process was given by Vision 2000. For nearly twenty weeks, their assembly process continued. There are about 1700 Chattanooga citizens joining and taking out the major problems of the city. This is a lot like focus group discussion. After identifying the problem, they set some goals to decide how these issues will be resolved. Being gathered together with this gathering and the city, many ideas come forward.Thousands of problems have been solved by brainstorming a lot. The officials in the city were aimed at arranging all kinds of solutions.

Chattanuga now; Image Source: EconomicDevelopment.org

Chattanooga had been able to fulfill a lot of their Vision 2000 in about 11 years between 1995. The factories of these factories were "zero emissions" from their factories. Their aim was to reduce the polluted air from the public buses in the city which were used in Diesel. Soon after, they focused on making electric cars and arranged for such vehicles in their streets.

In Chattanooga, the city was arranged for fancy processing. They arrange the processing of waste to reuse them. In 1989, there was preparation for the construction of an infrastructure that aimed to burn garbage dumps there.This process is called Ensirection. If this process was allowed to continue, the pollutants in the Chattanooga would have been able to increase the amount of pollutants, but there was a great hindrance in the construction of this infrastructure. Since then, the loss of harmful pollutants of about seven types of environment has decreased from the wind. Even the federal government has set the limits of all these contaminants in the sky in lesser amount of these pollutants.

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They used another innovative way. It is less housing and housing can be rented, designing such houses in a new environmentally friendly way. Besides, the world's largest natural clean water acreage was made in Chattanooga. At the end of the nineties, this monument was one of the tourist attractions.
They make a park called Riverfront Park, on the banks of the Tennessee River, where about one million tourists travel every year. As a result, the prices of this place continued to increase day by day. The people who once went to the city at the center of Chattanooga, after making these things, came back.

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T## he collective responsibility of everyone is taken on the shoulders but the contaminated city has been rehabilitated. Otherwise, it was never possible.

Here are some of the topics that are particularly noticeable. For example,

As a result of working together, the goal of eliminating pollution by 2000 was long before they reached that goal.

In this period, the people of the country did not tolerate environmental pollution in any way.

Because everyone has worked together, the solutions that have been proposed to prevent the city's pollution have been implemented very quickly.

As soon as the pollution is stopped, the socio-economic condition of Chattanooga becomes better and better than before.

Chattanoge people gave evidence of farsightedness. They have pumped the entire city in such a way that in the future, this city can be shown as attractive to the tourists

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A special aspect is noticeable here. If a country's economy and politics can be used as a valuable tool, it can be possible to solve any problem. Because any change is directly related to the economy. Again, the permissions and manpower needed for any change, it is never possible without political help. Another theme has been added - morality. If people rush to their goals in principle and firmly, then no work is impossible.A polluted city like Chattanooga has been saved only for a collective effort. There is no political or economic obstacle in this collective effort. Everyone has worked from their own morals and has got the result. Some of our country's major cities may have been close to the contaminated border or in some cases have exceeded the limits. We can learn from the story of the pollution free of Chattanooga City.