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Mother Nature Network: Prescription drugs are contaminating Lake Michigan two miles from Milwaukee’s sewage outfalls, suggesting that the lake is not diluting the compounds as most scientists expected, according to new research. “In a body of water like the Great Lakes, you’d expect dilution would kick in and decrease concentrations, and that was not the case here,” said Dana Kolpin, a U.S. Geological Survey research hydrologist based in Iowa. It is not clear what, if any, effects the drugs are having on fish and other......
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Lake Michigan drowning in prescription drug waste
Posted by Mother Nature Network: Brian Bienkowski on September 6th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation