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00:10 It didn't take me long to realize that the river that flows through my hometown
00:21 here, the river that I boat on all the time, needed a full-time advocate.
00:27 The North Jersey area here, just across from New York,
00:31 is like the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.
00:35 Everything bad that happened due to industry started here and
00:40 on the Passaic River.
00:41 For over 200 years, people were doing everything they could to
00:47 lay waste to this river.
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00:55 That's a sewage treatment plant, and
00:57 they treat the sewage from 45 municipalities in Bergen County.
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01:11 But the river has gotten a lot cleaner, and I have to thank Captain Bill for that.
01:23 It's gotten a hell of a lot cleaner.
01:25 Right now, there's striped bass, there's all kinds of fish there.
01:28 You can go to the Mill Creek Point right now, you see people fishing away.
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