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Environmentalists have also long expressed concern over pollution in the harbor. One of the sources of this pollution came from sewage being directly released into the water from the former Roslyn Sewage
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By the time sand mining operations stopped in 1989, a total of 140,000,000 yards (130,000,000 m) of sand were minded along
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