Delaware River

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Hope for river after years of abuse

By MOLLY MURRAY
The News Jounral (DE)
April 15, 2004

For anglers, shad are liquid silver that take a lure called a shad dart,
run away with the line and dance across the surface of the water.

"They fight. They jump. They're like tarpon," said Mike Misiura, who
catches shad for the challenge, just to throw them back in the Delaware
River.

The success or failure of the Delaware shad run this spring depends a
lot on the purity of the water. And the future of the Delaware River's
water quality is a key issue in the debate over an Army plan to ship
chemical weapons disposal waste to the DuPont Chambers Works plant and
discharge the treated waste into the river.

The plan comes as environmental advocates and state, regional and
federal officials are waging a decades-long effort to bring the Delaware
River and its bay back after generations of environmental abuse.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/04/15hopeforriveraft.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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