Restoring pollution hotspots, also known as Areas of Concern has an economic and societal payoff in the long run. In the article just published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research by John Hartig of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, Gail Krantzberg of McMaster University and Peter Alsip of the University of Michigan, it has been found that for every dollar spent on environmental cleanup, there is a $3 benefit in community revitalization.