EPA to Staunch Flood of Stormwater Runoff Polluting U.S. Waterways

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 11:14 in Earth & Climate

Little Black Creek has a long history of abuse.The stream in western Michigan runs through an industrialized area, and its sediment has some of the highest levels of cadmium found anywhere in the Great Lakes. Its banks are so eroded and its water so contaminated that it is unable to sustain its native, cold-water trout. [More]

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