WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is preparing to submit to the federal government its updated list of hundreds of so-called “impaired waterways” throughout the state. The Department compiles the list by monitoring an ever-increasing amount of the water in the state’s lakes, rivers and streams. The draft report is being prepared as state and national attention begins to focus on two of the contaminants mentioned most often throughout the report. Those contaminants are mercury and PCBs, which also happens to be the leading causes of pollution in the waterways of Monroe County. But currently the state has no plan for getting mercury or PCBs out of the state’s waters. Contaminated waterways, and what is — and isn’t — being done to clean them up, are the subject of today’s WFHB feature exclusive.
