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Shanghai cleans Suzhou Creek

By Shi Yingying (China Daily Shanghai Bureau)
Updated: 2011-01-11 16:23

SHANGHAI - Twelve dredgers and 140 300-ton sludge boats started work on cleaning mud from the bottom of Suzhou Creek in the city's center area on Jan 6.

The project involves vacuuming more than 130 cubic meters of sludge along 16.4 kilometers of the creek's middle and lower reaches and is expected to finish in June.

The Shanghai government began harnessing sections of Suzhou Creek as early as 1996, and cleaning the river bottom sludge is regarded as the last step. The whole project cost more than 14 billion yuan ($2 billion).