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Monday, February 18, 2008
Environment - More on: Section 303(d) List of Impaired Waters up for public comment through end of January
Updating this ILB from Jan. 28th, Rick Callahan of the AP reports today in a long story that begins:
A shift in how Indiana compiles a federally mandated list of its polluted waterways has removed about 800 stretches of rivers and smaller streams from that list, leaving environmentalists worried that it could hamper watershed-restoration efforts.State officials contend the new methodology has produced a more accurate picture of Indiana's "impaired" waterways, and will allow them to focus on cleaning up those most tainted with mercury, PCBs and other contaminants.
But environmentalists say Indiana's new approach is problematic because it has "de-listed" parts of streams simply because it doesn't have data on whether they are polluted.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 18, 2008 11:24 AM
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