Polluted Pond Spurs Clean-Up Innovations

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By Roger Wood on Tuesday, July 17, 2001.
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For over a hundred years, raw sewage has flowed into Portsmouth's South Mill Pond after every heavy storm. The city is nearly done with a $30 million waste water system upgrade. That will reduce future pollution, but to deal with the residue from the past, residents are working with everything from mussel beds to tidal cleansing.

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