River cleanup costs $62 million
The Canton Repository
ASHTABULA - A river that was nearly declared a U.S. EPA Superfund site is being dredged at a cost of $62 million, which could make the toxic waterway swimmable in five years.
Giant sluglike sacks are filling up outside Ashtabula Harbor, holding in their bulging bellies the toxic dregs of past industrial decades.
The Ashtabula River, about 50 miles northeast of Cleveland, has long been considered among the most polluted sites along the Lake Erie shore. It hasn't been dredged since 1962.
In the subsequent 45 years, its bottom was soiled by cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, low-level radioactive materials, heavy metals, and oil and grease from chemical plants and other heavy industry that has since scaled back, cleaned up or simply shut down and left the economically depressed area....Read more.
ASHTABULA - A river that was nearly declared a U.S. EPA Superfund site is being dredged at a cost of $62 million, which could make the toxic waterway swimmable in five years.
Giant sluglike sacks are filling up outside Ashtabula Harbor, holding in their bulging bellies the toxic dregs of past industrial decades.
The Ashtabula River, about 50 miles northeast of Cleveland, has long been considered among the most polluted sites along the Lake Erie shore. It hasn't been dredged since 1962.
In the subsequent 45 years, its bottom was soiled by cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, low-level radioactive materials, heavy metals, and oil and grease from chemical plants and other heavy industry that has since scaled back, cleaned up or simply shut down and left the economically depressed area....Read more.
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