The "correction" of this river to make it straighter was achieved by an engineer named Tulla.
The "correction" of this river to make it straighter was achieved by an engineer named Tulla.Efforts to clean this river began in earnest after a chemical spill in 1986 caused by the Sandoz fire.The Stork Plan has focused on reforesting land around this river's main distributary, the Waal. Themost polluted tributary of this river, the "biologically dead" Emscher River, flows throughDortmund. A 1976 convention to protect this river from pollution was signed in (*) Bonn, a city southof its confluence with the Ruhr. This river, which marks the eastern border of Alsace, meets the Mainbetween Strasbourg and Cologne. For 10 points, name this river that rises in the Swiss Alps, flows throughwestern Germany, and empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands.
The "correction" of this river to make it straighter was achieved by an engineer named Tulla.
Rhine River [or Fluss Rhein; or RiviÃ¨re le Rhin; or Fleuve Rhin; or Rivier Rijn ("RHAYN"); or Rivier de Rijn or Flum Rain]