Delaware Department of Natural Resources is reporting an overall reduction of contaminants in the state’s watersheds, following a special study ending last year. This lessens the risk of eating fish caught in Delaware.

DNREC Hydrologist John Cargill says cleanup efforts have helped reduce the amount of PCBs, mercury and doxins and furans found in fish.

“There’s been a concerted effort all over DNREC, and other areas not just DNREC, to be a little cleaner in practice, to clean up the messes that we have and to just be aware,” said Cargill.

Cargill points to one cleanup project at Mirror Lake in Dover, where the state added carbon to the water to sequester contaminates.