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Great Lakes Daily News: 08 December 2003
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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In the News
Report: Aging sewers plague Ontario
Great Lakes Radio Consortium (12/8)
A new report finds outdated sewage systems are polluting waters throughout Ontario, with 38 percent of the province's sewage ending up in Lake Ontario.

Foreign bug chews up ash business
Great Lakes Radio Consortium (12/8)
An exotic pest called the emerald ash borer is laying waste to millions of trees in Michigan and Ohio, and has begun to affect sales of ash trees across the entire country.

Great Lakes shipwrecks become underwater museums
Booth Newspapers (12/8)
Like tourists in an underwater museum, divers in the explore shipwrecks embedded in the depths of the Great Lakes.

Canoes may be hurting loons at Isle Royale
Booth Newspapers (12/8)
A researcher at Michigan Technological University has found a correlation between the number of canoe permits on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior and the number of loon chicks that fledge there.

Toledo port heads for another down year
The Toledo Blade (12/8)
Barring a late-season miracle, Toledo’s port is on course for a third straight down year for ships and cargo - and the lowest overall volume in decades.

Water levels rise on lakes
The Detroit News (12/7)
Water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan rose during November, while Lakes St. Clair and Erie held their own, and that could translate into an increase in water depths next year for frustrated boaters.

Great Lakes tempt a thirsty nation
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (12/7)
The near-draining of the Ogalla Aquifer, a body of groundwater once touted as equal in volume to Lake Huron, threatens one of the world's great agricultural economies and poses a cautionary tale for the Great Lakes.

Cal-Sag resolution gaining support
The Munster Times (12/7)
Several Chicago-area mayors groups and a convention bureau are supporting a plan for recreation tourism and economic development along the Cal-Sag Channel Corridor, where a casino is already in the works.

Niagara Falls still amazes in cold weather, and the crowds are gone
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (12/7)
Niagara Falls are spectacular in winter, when everything around them becomes a world glazed by ice.

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