Restoring The Mississippi

For five years now, Chad Pregracke, a 26-year old Illinois resident, has been on a heroic personal mission to clean up the Mississippi. His efforts have won him an award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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October 16, 2001, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"For five years now, he has been hauling junk out of the Mississippi River" - refrigerators, washing machines, even a van. His team members "also have hauled in the top half of a school bus. One 1950 International Harvester truck. And at last count: 3,608 tires, 1,012 steel drums, 64 television sets, four canoes and two prosthetic legs...He started his river cleanup mission when he was just a few years out of high school...Now there's a nonprofit foundation, a board of directors and a roster of corporate donors to fund a $300,000-a-year budget...He's won a prestigious award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His work has been featured on CNN and in Time and Life magazines."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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