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  1. River in Poland, that rises in the
  2. Carpathians and runs SE to the Baltic at
  3. Gdansk; length 1,090 km/677 mi. It is heavily
  4. polluted, carrying into the Baltic every year
  5. large quantities of industrial and
  6. agricultural waste, including phosphorus,
  7. oil, nitrogen, mercury, cadmium, and zinc.
  8.