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From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: June 15, 2006
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River friends group now has monitoring boat
Thanks to money
generated from one local polluter, the Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers
now has a boat to investigate discharges and erosion along local
waterways.
The Friends bought the 17-foot Carolina skiff with money from Cintas
Corp., a Cincinnati-based industrial laundry with a plant at 9828 S.
Oakwood Drive in Franklin. In 2004, Cintas agreed to pay $95,000 in
penalties and fees to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated its
pollution discharge permit.
In the agreement with the Sierra Club and Midwest Environmental
Advocates, a portion of the money was split between the Friends of
Milwaukee's Rivers and the River Revitalization Foundation.
Lynn Broaddus, executive director of the Friends organization, said
volunteers will use the boat to gather water samples for testing and to
look for illegal discharges on the Milwaukee, Menomonee and
Kinnickinnic rivers.
The boat will help in river clean-up projects and to show people the good and the bad of local rivers, Broaddus said.
From the June 16, 2006 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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