EPA cites rivers and lakes as 'impaired'

Friday, May 2, 2003

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Almost all of Missouri's major rivers and lakes are labeled "impaired" by pollutants on a list released Thursday by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

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