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False alarm: No, river’s not contaminated

Written February 18th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

See that white sign there? On Thursday afternoon (Feb. 17) it warned people to avoid contact with “contaminated water” in the Willamette River below the construction site of The Banks, an apartment complex near Albany’s Bowman Park. Well, forget it. There was no contamination.


 
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