In Case You Missed It: RI’s Most Polluted Lakes + Ponds
Saturday, June 15, 2013
"In Case You Missed It," GoLocal's Saturday feature, puts the week's top stories in one easy place for you to review and read. Check out what dominated the news cycle this week in Rhode Island and get all the details with these easy links.
Summer may make one dream of crystal clear lakes perfect for swimming, or teeming with healthy fish. But for the 28 lakes, ponds and reservoirs categorized by Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management (DEM) as "impaired," that summer dream is just that--a dream.
Those bodies of water all fall under DEM's "Category 5", the lowest-quality definition of water, which means that the waterbody is "impaired or threatened for one of more designated uses by a pollutants, and requires a TMDL," according to DEM.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTFor the whole story and a list of RI's Category 5 ponds, lakes + reservoirs, go here.
The same week as GoLocalProv released its Most Polluted Ponds, Lakes + Reservoirs story, Roger Williams University announced a program this summer to measure mercury levels in local fish.
Read more about the RWU project, here.
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