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Article: DIRTY WATER; Pollution threatens restoration plans; Project to remove Neponset dams stymied by PCB findings
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- April 29, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
Pollution is throwing cold water on a long-awaited plan to bring
back fishing and other recreational uses on what for two centuries
has been an industrialized stretch of the Neponset River.
State and federal officials had intended to remove or modify the
Tilestone & Hollingsworth Dam in Hyde Park and the Baker Dam in
Milton to restore shad and herring runs in one of the river's most
urban areas.
Anglers, environmental advocates and community groups have hoped
to restore fishing that ended after the dams were built 200 years
ago.
But the discovery of substantial amounts of polychlorinated
biphenyls, or PCBs, in the river has put the project in doubt, said
Corbie Kump, ...