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Additional $30M committed for cleanup of PCBs in Wisconsin river April 13 --
Another $30 million is being committed to the ongoing cleanup of PCBs from the Fox River in Wisconsin. NCR Corp. and Sonoco-U.S. Mills Inc. have agreed to spend the money on dredging and disposal of contaminated sediment in the river. The work will remove about 100,000 cubic yards of sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls in areas downstream and west of the De Pere Dam, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said. The work is scheduled to begin next spring and is part of a larger effort to remove PCBs along 40 miles of river contaminated by the reprocessing of carbonless copy paper that contained PCBs from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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