The EPA is just about finished with the cleanup of one of the region’stop pollution hot spots. It’s one of the largest PCB clean-ups ever. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:
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The EPA is just about finished with the cleanup of one of the region’s top
pollution hot spots. It’s one of the largest PCB cleanups ever. The great
Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports.
These pollution hot spots are called “areas of concern.” In Manistique
Harbor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, dredging removed about
140-thousand cubic yards of sediments contaminated with PCB’s and other
toxins. Walter Nied is the US EPA official in charge of the cleanup.
“We’ve been at it full-time dredging for five years. Total cost right
now is going to be around 45-million. And within four to six weeks we’ll be
the first of the 42 “Areas of Concern” that’s totally cleaned up.”
Nied says he’s glad the work is just about wrapped up. He says the big
concern now is getting funding for cleanup of the 41 other “areas of
concern.”
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.