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To Kingdom Come: The GE Legacy in Rome, Georgia

A collaboration between the Coosa River Basin Initiative (CRBI) and Ozarkadia Films. This educational documentary film won the Audience Award at the Rome International Film Festival. The Etowah and Oostanaula Rivers come together in Rome, Georgia and become the Coosa. As I drove east from Alabama along the Coosa into Rome, I noticed the abandoned General Electric transformer plant in the middle of town; a compound of structures and barren concrete surrounded by barbed wire, a hauntingly dead landscape in the midst of a living city. GE contaminated the Coosa River in Rome just as they did the Hudson River in New York. While the Hudson was dredged by GE at the EPA’s urging, dredging of rivers in Georgia has not occurred. In addition to river contamination, residential and commercial properties in Rome have been subjected to GE’s PCB waste. While GE invested almost two billion dollars in the cleanup of the Hudson, they left Rome with a toxic legacy of PCBs that will remain, as one local citizen noted, “to kingdom come.” This film presents the battle between Rome’s Riverkeepers and General Electric over PCBs and explores the underlying cultural encounter between the North and South through candid interviewing and historical media. Lesson plans are available for classroom use. Appropriate for Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Southern Studies, American Studies.