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The Cost of Clean part 1
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http://www.telegram.com/section/black... • You can see it clearly, standing on a footbridge along the Blackstone River Bikeway in Millbury: A channel comes in from the left, as you look north toward Worcester, its path carpeted with weedy green plants and algae. On the right, the water from the Blackstone River runs nearly plant-free. • It's the carpet of green that troubles water quality advocates and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — evidence, they say, of excessive plant growth fed by phosphorus and nitrogen from the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District's wastewater treatment plant a few thousand feet up the channel. • Overabundant aquatic growth is choking the river, the EPA says, here near its headwaters and downstream as it flows into Rhode Island's Seekonk River, Providence River and ultimately Narragansett Bay. • A four-year legal battle between the water pollution abatement district and the EPA about who is responsible for the water troubles and who should shoulder the expensive burden of cleaning it up has sparked national attention.
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