Ithaca is POLLUTED!!!!

As I've said many times I love Ithaca, this is my town, my locale, my home. But I was always concerned about how polluted six mile creek was near my house growing up. As a kid I spend time fishing with friends, and cackling at jokes underneath the bridge bellow south Cayuga, where we would find remnants of broken beer bottles from a homeless man who must have slept there the night before. This sounds ghetto to some extent but it really was not, we were curious kids playing near water in the city of Ithaca. We used to catch a lot of fish, crawfish, and then throwing them back, but as Ithaca became more developed, the water became more dirty. Trash and shopping carts littered the bottom, and fish were no longer around. The walls were tagged with graffiti, and I admit as a kid I may have painted once or twice, but my cans were always properly disposed of. Anyway, today no fishing, perhaps because not many fish are around, or kids just don't like to fish anymore, but its sad to see an area filled with curiosity become dirty and non appealing.