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  "textContent": "In 2014, northwestern Ohio faced an unexpected environmental crisis: a toxic algae bloom that contaminated the drinking water in and around the city of Toledo for several days. Yet, that environmental nightmare did not develop overnight — the groundwork was set more than a century earlier, when a massive swamp was wiped from the map.In […]\n\nThe post The Forgotten Inventor Who Killed the Great Black Swamp appeared first on InsideHook.",
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