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A historic cleanup of the Penobscot River is finally beginning

Summary by Bangor Daily News
Left on its own, the Penobscot River could take 80 years or longer to diffuse the estimated 9 metric tons of mercury spilled into it from a chemical plant in Orrington between 1967 and the early 1970s, according to experts studying the river. But a 2022 Maine U.S. District Court consent decree could speed up the river’s return to safe water by decades. The decade-long cleanup will require some of the mercury to be covered and other contaminated…
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