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Symbolic river may be removed from polluted river list
Ohio.com - Groups working to get Cuyahoga River off pollution list: "The once-dead and still-symbolic Cuyahoga River might be removed from an international list of polluted Great Lakes hot spots."The burning river that spurred on the environmental movement is clean enough in some places to be removed from the list of polluted rivers. Where once no fish could live, now dozens of species of fish thrive. The Clean Water Act calls for swimable, fishable water. The Cuyahoga River is to the point where it is fishable. Continued problems with combined sewer outflows on the middle and lower Cuyahoga keep it from being considered swimable, and canoeing is not recommended, but this is real ...
