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Water quality, flooding mean low grade for major watershed

by Jim Salter
| December 8, 2020 5:06 AM

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A group developed to help improve management of the Mississippi River Watershed has issued it a disappointing report card, and says urgent action and billions of dollars are required to address flooding and water quality concerns in the nation's largest rivers.

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