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Article: Maps must show possible PCBs; MMSD wants to know where toxic chemical might lie
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2007
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By March 31, Milwaukee and 27 other communities in four counties
served by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District must complete
maps showing all of their municipal sewers in which PCBs might have
accumulated in the past.
Five months after the toxic chemicals tainted the district's
sewage sludge fertilizer, resulting in $4.1 million in lost sales
and unforeseen sludge disposal and cleanup expenses, MMSD's
commission is attempting to prevent another such costly occurrence.
The commission on Monday unanimously agreed to make permanent a
rule that requires communities to identify sewers that drained
industrial corridors, particularly those built prior to a 1979
federal ban on use of ...