Dec
23
Still Discharging Into Lake Michigan
Filed Under Lake Michigan, environment
Less pollutants are going into Lake Michigan than in the past, but millions of pounds are still making their way into the Great Lake.
The Post-Tribune’s Gitte Laasby writes about the Clean Water Act’s effect in Northwest Indiana in today’s paper.
The Clean Water Act set out to “virtually eliminate” discharges to U.S. waterways by 1985. But a Post-Tribune analysis shows Indiana’s major facilities discharged more than 378 million pounds of pollutants into Lake Michigan and its tributaries in just one year.
Dumping of nearly all pollutants discharged by Indiana’s 33 major polluters has fallen dramatically since 1979. The Clean Water Act has made a difference.
But it hasn’t reached its goal of zero discharges, or come near it.
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