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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
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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.
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