River Is Rife with Pcbs; Lincoln Park Needs Work, Will Get Warning Signs

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Tom Reep, 40, has lived along Lincoln Park and the adjoining Milwaukee River his whole life.

As a youngster, he fished and swam in the river long before he learned that a banned family of chemicals known as PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, had been trickling into it for decades.

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River Is Rife with Pcbs; Lincoln Park Needs Work, Will Get Warning Signs

The state Department of Natural Resources says it has been aware of PCB-contaminated fish in the river going back to the 1970s, and studies in the mid-1990s confirmed the presence of PCBs in the water and sediment along the park.

But years have passed and still no work has started to remove the contaminants from the river and a tributary, Lincoln Creek, leaving Reep and others frustra...

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