Puget Sound 'tub' tainted by industrial residue of toxic dioxin
02/29/2012: A dioxin survey map from the EPA, establishing baseline data through sampling by the research vessel Bold. Sediment samples were collected and analyzed at 70 locations throughout the Sound.
When you think about Puget Sound, a bathtub might not be the first image to come to mind.
But that’s one way environmentalists and scientists sometimes describe it, because the shape of Puget Sound is an important factor when it comes to keeping it clean.
A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency on the health effects of dioxin is confirming what many experts have known for a long time.
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