In a report, written by none other than Jacobs Engineering, the four federal agencies determined that the sediment at the bottom of the Clinch and the lower Emory contained such large quantities of radioactive waste and posed such a threat to public health that they forbade any activity that would disturb the river bottom, such as building a dock, without a special permit. Moreover, the four federal agencies presumed that any sediment dredged from the waters would contain at least some radioactive material, and they vowed to avoid any activity that would disturb the sediment. But in 2008, the
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