Toxic Lake Erie Shipwreck Never Should Have Been on Great Lakes

December 2015 News GLB Admin
By Garrett Ellison, mLive LAKE ERIE — About 45 feet beneath the surface of western Lake Erie is the 78-year-old polluting hulk of a vessel that was never supposed to be on the Great Lakes. The Argo, a tanker barge that sank Oct. 20, 1937 in a storm, was operating illegally during its final journey — a trip from New Jersey to Sault Ste. Marie and back to load cargo that is still threatening the lakes eight decades later. Read the full story here.
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