River to get $53 million cleanup
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GARY, Ind. -- US Steel and seven other companies that have polluted the Grand Calumet River here for years agreed Friday to pay $56 million to settle a lawsuit to pay for its cleanup.
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By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 15--ELLSWORTH -- The hard work the Union River Watershed Coalition has been doing for the past four years is starting to pay off.
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By Mike Monson, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Feb. 7--CHAMPAIGN -- Illinois American Water plans to start construction  later this year on a $51 million water treatment plant about a mile north of  Bondville.
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By Madeleine Mathias, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 4--The public will have a 60-day period to comment in writing on the proposed settlement of a $1.5 million civil penalty for the 2005 fly ash spill into the Delaware River at the PPL Corp.
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By Nicholas Azzara, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--MANATEE -- In the coming years, Manatee County's freshwater treatment plant will require significant upgrades, costing $50 million to $150 million, to meet tighter environmental standards.
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By Yomi S. Wronge, MEDIA NEWS  The state's second-longest river will be brought back to life after 60 years of being drained dry for Central Valley agriculture, under a settlement filed Wednesday in federal court.
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 12--State efforts to clean polluted rivers will suffer if lawmakers cut the EPA's budget, the agency said.
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Curry Office Supply Inc. was ordered Monday to pay a $50,000 fine for negligent discharge of contaminated water into streams that flow into the Sangamon River.
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A Solid Energy report on fish in rivers downstream of its mine near Westport will be the benchmark for its environmental clean-up.   The priority is to get whitebait running in the Ngakawau River again.
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(Paulsboro, NJ -WABC, November 27, 2004 ) - Authorities are working to clean up a slippery and potentially dangerous mess in a South Jersey river.
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By HARDIE, Anne  Farmers are often blamed for polluting the waterways, but along the Sherry River they're banding together to improve the environment and the image of farming. Anne Hardie talks with a group that is focused on cleaning up its river.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, government officials, farmers and environmentalists have been trying to find a way of prevent dangerous agricultural runoff from polluting the Delta and other state waterways.
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By Conor Reilly, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 10--RICHMOND -- Lynchburg officials were on Capitol Square on Friday to accept a federal environmental award for the effort to clean up a sewer system that dumps 100 million gallons of raw sewage into the James River annually.
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By Russ Keen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Feb. 21--The remains of a bridge that once spanned the James River northeast of Bath are scheduled to be removed from the river today.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 8--Removing two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River would flush enough dirt and gravel downstream to fill a million dump trucks.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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A US team wants to clean up a river estuary by improving living conditions across the Mexican border.