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The Black River is one step closer to shedding an unflattering label and environmentalists said it shows the progress from decades of clean-up efforts.This summer, the U.S. EPA and the State of Ohio removed a beach closings Beneficial Use Impairment from the Lorain County waterway. The BUI was among a once-long list of environmental hazards needing to be addressed before the river could be declassified as a Great Lakes Area of Concern.“It would make you worrisome about it.
“Lots of federal and state and local people have really worked hard to improve those areas where the actual industries were,” explained Kris Patterson, an Ohio Lake Erie Commission program administrator.She said the collaboration has helped slowly chip away at a list of environmental concerns known as BUI.In 1990, the Black River AOC Advisory Committee identified nine BUIs requiring attention.
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