Deer Lake taken off EPA hotspot list

Deer Lake near Ishpeming has been on the EPA's cleanup list for decades, and now finally has reached its environmental goals to be taken off.

Excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that two U.S. Areas of Concern, Deer Lake in the Lake Superior basin and White Lake in the Lake Michigan basin, have been removed from the binational list of toxic hotspots that were targeted for cleanup in the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

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Source: ABC 10
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