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...water quality for boating when it’s dry is fine,” said Bill Walsh-Rogalski, counsel for Special Projects for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “The water quality even meets swimming standards virtually all the time [when it is dry]. The real question is whether or not it is going to rain...
...goal of the EPA, however, is to make the Charles “swimmable by 2005,” and have stable, high water quality regardless of the weather. According to Walsh-Rogalski, that goal is still attainable and the CRWA’s statistics may be misleading...
Rogalski’s assertion is supported by the annual grading the EPA does of the river. In April, the Charles River earned a “B,” an acceptable quality for boating...
...samples taken in the outlying boroughs. While it is uncertain whether asbestos was used in the towers, which were completed in 1973, it may have been used elsewhere in the area. "We have not seen anything that would lead to long-term environmental or health problems," says EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who toured the site Thursday. The bodies trapped in the twisted-steel mausoleum also pose no major health threat; undiseased bodies do not spread disease when they decompose...
Still, even the EPA lauds Kennecott's stewardship in the valley. "That particular mine is at the forefront of the industry. Having a booming metropolis has forced Kennecott to deal appropriately at that site," says Dan Randolph, the EPA's Southwest-circuit rider...