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What can be done about organic chemical pollution?
Obviously, removing or cleaning up contaminated sediments
will result in a cleaner environment over time. Fortunately,
PCB and dioxin levels have been declining in the past few
decades and have been the subject of a number of federal and
state regulations and cleanup actions in the United States.
A number of Superfund projects have removed highly con-
taminated sediments (e.g., Hudson River PCBs). One looks
forward to the day, probably decades from now, when people
can safely consume fish and crabs from around Newark Bay
and the rest of New York/New Jersey Harbor, New Bedford
Harbor, the Columbia River estuary, and other contaminated
sites.
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