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Cleaning Chicago River of” groups, who spend countless hours picking up trash and debris from our streams, rivers, marinas and harbors, because they care.

Many of our U.S. municipali- ties have Combined Sewer Systems (CSS) which are major sources of nonpoint source pollution, especially after stormwater events. During heavy downpours, stormwater runoff can create high volumes of water that can overburden the waste water treatment plant causing sewage water to be dis- charged through outfalls directly into waterways. This is called a Combined

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