Roger Frymire has been patrolling the Charles River watershed in Massachusetts for over a decade, testing viral and bacterial levels that have been appearing at alarming highs. Living on Earth’s Dennis Foley has this portrait of an average citizen who’s putting the problem of water pollution on the radar.
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