The Savannah River (Savannah, Georgia) has been called "the third most toxic in the United States" by a nonprofit research and policy center following a report that showed more than 4 million pounds of toxic discharge were released into the river in 2010. The report, released Thursday by Environment Georgia Research & Policy Center, also stated that more than 10 million pounds of toxic chemicals had been dumped into Georgia's waterways in 2012, making it the eighth worst state in the nation. The report showed that Augusta's DSM Chemicals North America Inc. was the state's biggest polluter, dumping "more than 4 million pounds of the toxic pollution" into the Savannah River, according to The Florida Times-Union.
The Lower Ohio River-Little Pigeon River, which runs through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, and Virginia's New River were the only watersheds found to have higher volumes of toxic pollution than the Savannah River.
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