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Great Lakes Daily News: 12 September 2003
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Dip in Great Lakes water levels continues
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Already-low Great Lakes water levels have continued to decline this year,
according to the International Lake Superior Board of Control. Source:
Green Bay Press-Gazette (9/12)


EPA won't require permits for ballast water
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it won't require permits for
ships discharging ballast water despite complaints that the discharges are
introducing invasive species in the Great Lakes and elsewhere. Source: The
Associated Press (9/12)


New paving material puts PCBs, river sediment to use on road
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Officials demonstrated Thursday that PCB-contaminated river sediments can be
melted into a glass aggregate, mixed with asphalt and used to pave roads -
an option in the federally mandated cleanup plan for the Fox River. Source:
The Appleton Post-Crescent (9/12)


Montreal waterfront cleanup gets kudos
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Delegates to an international conference on waterfront development got a
taste yesterday of how Montreal has been faring. Source: The Montreal
Gazette (9/12)


Architects hired to plot canal course
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The federal commission that oversees the Erie Canal began charting a course
for the historic waterway's future this week by hiring a New York City firm
to draw up a master plan for preserving the canal's historic nature while
promoting development. Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard (9/12)


EPA recommends that Michigan reject wetlands permit for road project
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Federal regulators have recommended that Michigan reject wetlands permits
for a long-debated plan to build a four-lane road across the scenic Boardman
River valley. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/12)


Ohio pushes clean marinas
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The Clean Marina program will first focus on the approximately 225 to 250
marinas on Lake Erie. Source: The Toledo Blade (9/12)


Endurance swimmer on second stage of Lake Michigan swim
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As of Thursday afternoon, Jim Dreyer was about 7 miles from completing stage
two in swimming the length of Lake Michigan. Source: The Associated Press
(9/11)


All aboard the freedom ship Amistad
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During two tours of the East Coast, one of the Gulf of Mexico and this
summer's Great Lakes visit, the Freedom Schooner Amistad has never had a
reception like the one it got in New York on Wednesday. Source: The Buffalo
News (9/11)


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