Falls Lake cleanup will be costly, contentious

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/07/374497/falls-lake-cleanup-will-be-costly.html

Underneath the glassy surface of Falls Lake, pollution threatens the drinking water of a half-million people in Wake County and the growth of a large part of the Triangle.

Five years after the need for a cleanup was recognized by the state legislature, the state Environmental Management Commission is hammering out a strategy to reduce pollutants flowing into the almost 12,500-acre reservoir from streams and rivers in Orange, Person, Granville, Wake and Durham counties that have led to rising levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in the lake.

The next few months will prove crucial with Triangle city and county governments, homebuilders, environmental groups and concerned citizens being asked to tell the commission what they think should happen.

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