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Neil Ward, Molly Saunders, and Chick Carroll of Androscoggin River Alliance, which is dedicated to a cleanup. ‘‘It’s time we stood up for the river,’’ Ward said.

Clean-water activists take aim at Androscoggin

Some blame state for mills' pollution

By Beth Daley
Globe Staff / February 21, 2006

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LEWISTON, Maine -- The Androscoggin River that served as the putrid inspiration for the federal Clean Water Act three decades ago has long been cursed with a bitter irony: It has never met the minimum standards of that law. (Full article: 1375 words)

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