The River Clyde is located in Scotland and is 176km long .It got it's named by "a wise man" which once said that" Glasgow made Clyde and Clyde made Glasgow" .This was all said in the early 1700s.

The river Clyde begins from Lowther Hills to the Firth of Clyde. It has been said that it's been 7.4m to 8.2m deep. The creatures that live in the Clyde river are Eels ,graylings, Dace , barbels ,Roach ,tench ,Flounder ,Rudd , ruffle ,smelt , trout ,bleak ,salmon and minnow. It flows through the major city Glasgow. The river is 26 miles(42km)wide. The counties it flows through are South Lanarkshire ,Argyll and Ayrshire. The River Clyde is the 8th longest river in the UK and in Scotland it is the second longest river.

Three Amazing Facts About River Clyde:

1. Did you know that according to secret diary keeping crewman Leonard H Thomas, during W.W.2, Russians gold bullion ,worth millions ,bound for America sank to the bottom of the Clyde ,after crewman made a mistake transferring the precious metal from one to another. The deal between Russia and America ,relating to purchase of arms during W.W.2 ,was so secret it was never discussed ,registered or mentioned again.

2.The River Clyde is a massive to 9 miles long, beginning at Lowther hills in South Lanarkshire it ends at the Firth of Clyde which then runs into the Atlantic Ocean.

3. In the 1800s and with the rise of Glasgow's industry the wealthy "Tobacco birds" began to put pressure on Glasgow Town Council to deepen the Clyde, which would allow larger merchant boats to travel further up the river Broomielaw instead of ejecting cargo at Greenock to be horse drawn at the rest of the journey. In 1812 engineers James Smeaton ,John Golborne and Thomas Telford created the "Lang Dyke".At low tide the engineering marvel is still visible to this day.

Pollution

Surface sediments from the Glasgow reaches the Clyde, Cunnigar to Milton, contained polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from 630kg to 23711kg and polychlorinated biphenyic (PCB) in the range of 5 to 130.5 kg which classifies these sediments as non-toxic.However, a later sturdy showed PCB concentrations as high as 5.797 kg which is above published threshold levels for the chlorinated compounds. Comparision of individual PAH compounds with different thermal stablities shows that the source PAH pollution in the Clyde changes downriver.Organic chemical pollution in sediments of the Clyde estuary have been evaluated by British Geolical survey.PAH in the inner Clyde (Cunnigar to Milton) are from copollution.

The River Clyde

This is RIver Clyde