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Great Lakes Daily News: 21 July 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Suburbs, Manitowoc sign water contract
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Five of the six member communities of the Central Brown County Water
Authority voted Monday to approve a contract with the city to supply
drinking water from Lake Michigan. Source: The Green Bay News-Chronicle
(7/21)


Vessel of history
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The remains of the bulk freighter Robert Wallace, which took on water and
sank more than a century ago, has become the first shipwreck to be found in
Lake Superior in three years. Source: Duluth News Tribune (7/21)


Great Lakes plan buoys boaters
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A Great Lakes protection plan being developed by 10 U.S. and Canadian
governments has made a local splash with more than just environmentalists.
Source: The London Free Press (7/21)


Saginaw River considered for power plant
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A new power plant considered for Saginaw Riverway would use "clean coal"
technology, a relatively new way of creating electricity that reduces toxic
emissions tenfold or more, experts say. Source: The Bay City Times (7/20)


Great Lakes restoration spurs fight for funds
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The electrical barrier, designed to stop voracious Asian carp from entering
the Great Lakes, has drawn attention to the debate over who should pay to
protect and restore the Great Lakes. Source: Reuters (7/20)


Tourism effort runs with, not against, the grains
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Muskegon, Mich., area parks are boasting "Blue Wave" clean beach
certification in order to entice tourists. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (7/20)


UWSP prof named to federal fisheries commission
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A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point professor of fisheries, Michael
Hansen, has been appointed by President Bush to the Great Lakes Fishery
Commission. Source: Stevens Point Journal (7/20)


Season getting longer for short-lived, pesky mayflies
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By noon Monday, one of the year's largest waves of the winged insects had
swept ashore from Lake Erie in an historically late swarm. Source: Port
Clinton News Herald (7/20)


EPA gives $1.1 million grant to Potawatomi tribe
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a more than $1.14
million grant for a Kalamazoo River watershed restoration project being
coordinated by an American Indian tribe in southwestern Michigan. Source:
Detroit Free Press (7/20)


Daley blames Milwaukee sewage for beach closings
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A decade ago, Milwaukee opened a $2.8 billion deep tunnel sewer system, but
this year the city and some suburbs have dumped 4.6 billion gallons of
untreated sewage after heavy rains, angering residents, environmentalists
and Milwaukee's big-city neighbor to the south -- Chicago. Source: Chicago
Sun-Times (7/19)


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