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Detroit’s toxic river: After decades, some progress—but a long cleanup journey remains

In 1987 the U.S. and Canada entered into a Great Lakes agreement to start the process of cleaning up the most polluted sites, 43 of them, that dot the waterways in and between the two countries. The sites, officially known as Areas of Concern, contain legacy toxic sediment from the industrial era when dumping pollutants ...

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