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Cory Booker: “The site I stood on had severe flooding which then carried much of those contaminants that were otherwise isolated back…”

On the recordJune 9, 2014
The site I stood on had severe flooding which then carried much of those contaminants that were otherwise isolated back into our water table.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker highlights the impact of flooding on contaminant levels in drinking water.

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