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When Paris hosted last year’s Olympics, it spent a billion euros to clean up pollution in the Seine to host open-water swimming events. The mayor even took a dip to demonstrate its safety. And this summer, the city opened three public swimming areas in the river for the first time in more than a century.

This past weekend, hundreds of swimmers competed in a race in the Chicago River, also for the first time in 100 years.

And every year, swimmers loop Manhattan in organized swims through the Hudson, Harlem and East rivers.

So will we see swimmers soon in the Cuyahoga River?

Unfortunately, no, thanks to sediment, algae, other organic material, debris, stormwater ru

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