Word: basins
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Some steps are already being taken to meet these bills. New York State has $130 million worth of municipal waste-treatment facilities in operation, another $834 million worth under construction. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware have joined with the Federal Government to form the Delaware River Basin Commission. They have enlisted the cooperation of nearly 100 firms and municipalities, including Du Pont, Rohm & Haas and Sun Oil, in a $500 million effort to clean up an 85-mile stretch of the Delaware estuary between the ocean and Trenton...
...cost of building tertiary sewage treatment plants to cope with the phosphate-based detergents responsible for much of Lake Erie's pollution, for example, would come to $230 million-a $23 investment for each of the 10 million residents on the U.S. side of the Lake Erie basin. The $700 million annual price tag for industrial and power-plant pollution would add a mere 200 to 300 to most consumers' monthly electric bills. However unpopular such extra tariffs might be, the price is modest if it will buy the fresh air and clean water that is fast becoming...