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USA: Cities allowed to discharge wastewater more than industry

April 21, 2008 · No Comments

BY CHRISTINE KRALY. ckraly@nwitimes.com, 219.662.5335 | Sunday, April 20, 2008

In addition to the industrial complexes dotting the lakefront, municipal sanitation sites also expel millions of pounds of chemicals and treated wastewater into the Lake Michigan basin every year.
And some Calumet Region and Chicago-area municipalities are allowed to discharge far greater volumes of pollutants into the lake and its waterways than the more criticized industries, an eight-month Times investigation of Lake Michigan pollution shows. (…)

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