EPA Announces Final Wisconsin River Cleanup Plan

Date: July 31, 2003

Source: News Room

Tons of sediment containing harmful toxins would be dredged from the Fox River and buried in a landfill under a $324 million EPA plan in the second and final phase of a $400 million project for ridding 39 miles of the Fox River of PCBs. Along with dredging, some PCBs would be capped with sand and gravel and the pollutant would be monitored in coming decades. PCBs were released into the river from the 1950s through the 1970s by seven paper mills. Under the plan, more than 7 million cubic yards of polluted silt would be dredged. It would take at least a decade before the work is finished and years after that before fish could be declared PCB-free.
More information: www.epa.gov.

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