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THE JANESVILLE GAZETTE JANESVILLE. VflS. () 27.400 MAY 2 0 1975 SSI Contaminated Carp Buried Pf&cPIN, WWiit. (AP) --- A Poedpinll ffUilh wholesaler hea burled enother 40.000 BHindi 0/ carp-- moatly caught in Lake epin-- containing a potentially cancercauaing induatrial chemical. The carp contained level! o( MlimWIiMtUalul kl_L__..l_ / nnn. < . .. . c(Votnnt.aaiinniinngn 0. tio. 1.4.p__p_m_. 1olnPmCB. *u Hi' nah were caught before the high PCB level! were dlacovered. alnce the diacovery. flahlng on Lake Pepin, a widening of the Miaaiaeippi Elver betwew Row Wing and Wabaaha. Minn., haa been at a virtual atanditlll. Carp ia the main commercial flab Drug Administration regulations. The carp buried Monday contained as much as 28 ppm of the chemical, which rh.a.a.tao..bry.eaannfiomuanlsd.to causa cancer .in labs taken from Lake Pepin. The Mlnneaota Pollution Control Agency end PDA were ettemptlng .to determine the tource of the pollution. _ TT1* Mlnneaota Department of Noturnl SSsSSSSSs' ........ 1_Ihe_,PCB probably originated from industrial operations in the Minneapolis St. Paul area, about 70 milee upriver from Lake Pepin, official, said. A DNR official Mid uee of the chemical has declined drastically tinea warnings were issued in 1972, but noted //. that it takes five years for the chemical to begin breaking down. HONS 031284