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Part 3: Living With Dioxin Delays
Mitch Larson lives in Saginaw's Riverside neighborhood, which saw a large dioxin removal project last year. His home is on the banks of Tittabawassee River. (Photo by Shawn Allee)
Several communities in central Michigan are polluted by dioxins from a Dow Chemical plant. People there have known about it for thirty years. But, residents are divided over whether the government should force Dow to pay for a cleanup that could cost tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars. In the third part of a series on Dow and dioxin, Shawn Allee traveled to the area and talked with some of them:
A documentary on dioxin from 2004
Producer: Shawn Allee
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Running Time: 3:38