In an effort to clean up more than a century of pollution in Milwaukee’s waterways, a 42-acre “bathtub” has opened along Lake Michigan to hold tons of toxic sediment. The $123 million facility can hold 1.9 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment dredged up from rivers in southeast Wisconsin – equivalent to approximately 13 football fields filled to a depth of 50 feet. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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