Can Seattle's Duwamish river ever be restored?

November 25, 2007 - Little by little, death devours the Duwamish:

A crane drops an industrial-sized electrical transformer, which breaks, oozing its toxic payload into the river.

A railroad tanker car full of highly toxic PCB-contaminated oil and poked full of holes lies half-buried just yards from the river's edge.

At a metal-recycling yard near the Duwamish, a worker pours PCB-laden oil from inside electrical transformers directly onto the ground. This goes on for months -- if not years.

These scenes from the past speak to an ugly truth: We have systematically abused and negligently defiled the river that for millennia nourished Seattle's first people -- and brought the city much of its modern-day wealth.

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