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Great Lakes Daily News: 20 July 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Stemming the flow from the Great Lakes
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The newly announced proposed agreement to protect Great Lakes water would
place severe hurdles on large-scale water diversions and establish a new
body that would have the power to vet water-export proposals. Source: The
Globe and Mail (7/20)


Lake Michigan can be deadly
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Lake Michigan is a living body of water with an ever-changing mix of waves
and currents that can threaten -- and, under certain circumstances, kill --
swimmers. Source: The Northwest Indiana Times (7/20)


Lake County tries E. coli prediction
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An experimental E. coli prediction system being tested at Illinois beaches
may enable officials to close beaches as soon as there's a problem, rather
than finding out a day late that swimmers may have been exposed to the
harmful bacteria. Source: Chicago Tribune (7/20)


Lake Ontario research lab may be ferry's neighbor
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SUNY Brockport is now leaning toward a new home for its proposed Lake
Ontario research center - next door to the high-speed ferry in Rochester.
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/20)


Volunteers find thousands of plants, animals in state's newest park
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Biologists and naturalists think Pennsylvania's newest state park is home to
more than a thousand species of plants and animals. Source: WNEP-TV (7/20)


150 boats cross finish line at Mackinac Island
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A total of 150 boats had finished the 80th Port Huron to Mackinac sailboat
race by Tuesday morning as light winds kept much of the fleet out on Lake
Huron. Source: Detroit Free Press (7/20)


Our Great Lake
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Lake Ontario's economic impact on upstate New York is huge. Sound and
careful policies toward the environment are essential to the region's
quality of life and economic well-being. Source: Otswego County Business
(7/20)


Conservation program's funding likely restored
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Michigan lawmakers are ready to pump more money into a water-quality program
that pays farmers to turn farmland into natural areas that help keep
sediment and pollutants out of waterways. Source: The Bay City Times (7/19)


High-tech, digitized passports on horizon
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Canada plans to begin issuing high-tech "e-passports" next year as the
latest step in the effort to more closely track and control the flow of
people across borders following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the
United States. Source: The Windsor Star (7/19)


Lake Michigan yellow perch numbers increase
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Indiana fishermen credit the end of commercial fishing with the rebound in
Lake Michigan perch, though biologists aren't sure it's that simple. Source:
The Indianapolis Star (7/18)


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