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Great Lakes Daily News: 08 October 2003
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Marathon swimmer finishes with a bang
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Marathon swimmer Jim Dreyer fired a flare after he swam under the Mackinac
Bridge Tuesday night after completing his 340-mile swim of the length of
Lake Michigan (20-40 miles per stage). Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(10/8)


Coast Guard considers ballast water regulations
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The U.S. Coast Guard will hold five public meetings in October and November,
including one on the Great Lakes, to discuss the potential environmental
impact of a ballast water discharge standard that the service is developing.
Source: Duluth News Tribune (10/8)


EDITORIAL: Water insult: Fewer inspections, reports will hurt lakes
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The Michigan quarter may have the imprint "Great Lakes State," but you'd
never know it from what the legislature is doing. Source: Detroit Free Press
(10/8)


Students put Fox River tributary to the test
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Students from Green Bay area high schools will test water from various
tributaries leading to the Fox River, investigating temperature, dissolved
oxygen, nutrients and stream flow. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (10/8)


COMMENTARY: Pesticides: A grave oversight
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Ottawa doesn't know nearly enough about the chemicals on our food and our
lawns, warns Environment Commissioner Johanne Gélinas. Source: The Toronto
Globe and Mail (10/8)


Lake Huron water levels set to rise
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To help even lake levels, the International Joint Commission is releasing an
extra 3 billion gallons of water per day out of Lake Superior into lakes
Huron and Michigan. Source: The Port Huron Times Herald (10/7)


Grape growers compensated for poor season
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For the first time in at least 40 years, a cooperative that is the largest
buyer of grapes grown in the Lake Erie region will pay its members $600 for
every acre they cannot harvest because of the wet, cold growing season.
Source: Port Clinton News Herald (10/7)


Pollution fails to hinder park plans
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High levels of arsenic and a petroleum-based chemical contaminate the soil
of industrial land along the Cuyahoga River channel that Cleveland wants to
turn into a park. Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer (10/7)


COMMENTARY: Minnesota's Clean Water Initiative shows commitment to water
quality
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The Pawlenty administration's commitment to the environment couldn't be
shown any more clearly than in the unprecedented commitment they've made to
water quality. Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press (10/7)


DNR battles distrust in working for lakes
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Much to the chagrin of some northwoods property owners, the Wisconsin DNR is
revising its 35-year-old shoreland development standards, a two-year process
that the agency hopes to complete by the end of 2004. Source: The Capital
Times (10/6)


Art, parks among ideas for vivifying lakefronts
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At a recent symposium, Great Lakes city officials described planning and
financing strategies that help rejuvenate waterfronts with public parks and
other amenities capitalizing on the water, while balancing the needs of
industrial and maritime users. Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer (10/5)

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