The Bristol University-led team says the record provides a true baseline against which measures to keep the great river clean can now be judged.
The Clean River Plan is just one facet of the city's drive to implement a new strategy for the Willamette as the 2005 bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition nears.
He said the new sewer system will help clean up the River Ribble and beaches along the Lancashire coastline from Southport to Blackpool.
The EPA said additional dredging would clean up the river faster, but it noted that other state and federal agencies have the authority to address the issue.
The impetus for the Washington state ban was the Sierra Club's efforts to clean up the Spokane River, says Craig Engelking, legislative director for the Sierra Club's Cascade chapter.
Exxon submitted a seven-point plan to clean the river, but the EPA rejected the draft as being insufficient.
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They added the firm's "no-expense-spared clean up" of the River Lark demonstrated its ongoing commitment to the local environment.
Slovenia: Levels of the River Mura are dropping but residents along the river have been left with a massive clean-up task.
In 1963 he moved the operation to its present spot on the Pigeon River, which provides cold, clean water for his trout-rearing raceways--concrete troughs where the fish are kept.
For the past three years, the group has visited Memphis, Tennessee, each spring to help clean up a harbor on the Mississippi River where the waters are thick with debris.
For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.
The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
But a perennial challenge has been in getting the water clean enough that it can be reused in the next frack job or simply discharged down a river or stream.
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