Urban Waters Voices: Passaic River

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Urban Waters Voices is a series of video interviews featuring locally led efforts to restore urban waters in communities across the United States.This video features Lisa Baron, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, describing some of the challenges faced by communities in the Lower Passaic River of Newark, New Jersey, which was severely impacted by the early 1900s Industrial Revolution and contains legacy contaminants, such as mercury, dioxin, and polychlorinated bipheyls (PCBs). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are co-leads at the Lower Passaic Urban Waters Federal Partnership (UWFP) location where the community is an active partner in restoring the river. For more about UWFP visit: www.urbanwaters.gov
Photo Credit: [U.S. National Park Service and Newark Riverfront Revival
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