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DEQ Investigating
The State Department of Environmental Quality is trying to figure out who is illegally dumping discharge into the Vermilion River and Bayou Teche. So far DEQ found forty percent of businesses and residents dumping discharged water into the waterways without the required permit. State environmental officials say their goal is to get the Vermilion back to its cleaner state when people swam in it.
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