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A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
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Times Beach, Missouri
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Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD contamination, formerly…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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