TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials say a U.P. lake is one of two locations in Michigan that is being dropped from a list of 43 highly contaminated sites in the Great Lakes region.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that cleanup work has been completed at Deer Lake and downstate White Lake in Muskegon County.
Both were designated as "areas of concern" in 1987 under an agreement between the U.S. and Canada that pledged to restore toxic hot spots around the Great Lakes watershed. But little was accomplished on the U.S. side until the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative began pumping additional funds into cleanup activities in 2010.
Four U.S. sites have now been dropped from the list, along with three in Canada. EPA says several others are on the verge of removal.
