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Shaping proposal to restore watershed

Extends beyond Nyanza pollution

By James O’Brien

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 08, 2012

An environmental restoration plan submitted to the residents of Massachusetts - a Jan. 23 comment deadline is now pending - would bring nearly $4 million to bear upon the damage left behind by a now-closed Ashland textile-dye maker. In its scope the plan would return not only wildlife and complex habitats to the Sudbury River and its surroundings, but it would also create new protected land and increase public access to the waterway.

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