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Article: River improves amid Big Poultry suit: ; Some suspect action spurred companies to do better policing themselves
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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SCRAPER, Okla. - David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a
person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has
improved in recent years.
Overbey, a 67-year-old retired laborer who spends his days
fishing the river in the foothills of the Ozarks in eastern
Oklahoma, said the water is clearer now than it was 30 or 40 years
ago, and the drum and channel catfish he catches are bigger. And
other locals, too, say the river is slowly beginning to heal after
decades of deterioration.
Some trace the roots of the recovery to 2005, when Oklahoma
brought a pollution lawsuit against the Arkansas poultry industry,
suggesting the threat of legal action may have spurred the companies
to do ...