Meeting on Lower Menominee River pollution delisting to be held online

(WLUK) -- A meeting to gather public input on removing the Lower Menominee River from the list of the Great Lakes` most polluted waterways is going online.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the April 9 meeting will be held by webinar from 5-7 p.m. CDT. Those who would like to participate can register online.

Environmental agencies in Wisconsin and Michigan announced the effort to delist the Menominee River in February. Environmental harm from historical pollution from coal tar, paint sludge, and arsenic earned the lower three miles of the river and the Green Bay shoreline -- three miles north and south of the river mouth -- an Area of Concern designation. All six of the impairments contributing to the problem have been remediated, so Michigan and Wisconsin want it removed from the list...