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Great Lakes Daily News: 27 July 2004

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Marvel chemicals pop up in animals all over world
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Chemicals known as "modern marvels" for their ability to keep food from
sticking to pans and repel stains from fabric are turning up in
environments the world over, and were recently detected for the first time
in the Great Lakes. Source: Chicago Tribune (7/27)

County bonds could back iron nugget plant
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A Minnesota county may issue bonds to help finance construction of a plant
to produce iron nuggets which, unlike taconite, can be directly used in
modern steel plants. Source: Duluth News Tribune (7/27)

Purchase of steel mill lakefront land first step in shoreline rehab
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The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore announced an ambitious timetable Monday
for cleaning up and opening to the public 60 acres of beachfront property it
is purchasing from U.S. Steel. Source: Merrillville Post-Tribune (7/27)

Report: Lake cleanup has long way to go
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A group working to clean up Lake Macatawa has made modest progress toward
its goal of reducing phosphorous runoff to the west Michigan lake by 70
percent. Source: The Holland Sentinel (7/27)

Ferry ride to get longer in the fall
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Starting Sept. 14, the Lake Express high-speed ferry will build another 30
minutes into each trip between Milwaukee and Muskegon. Source: Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel (7/27)

Residents are urged to protect water supply
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The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments is recommending simple ways
residents can help protect the water supply in a region without separate
sanitary and storm sewers, as mandated by the Clean Water Act. Source: The
Detroit News (7/27)

Big cats back on the prowl
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The longstanding official position that cougars are extinct in Michigan took
another blow Monday when the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy released a video
of what appears to be two of the big cats in a Monroe County field. Source:
The Detroit Free Press (7/27)

Slow going as first boats finish Mac
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With an entrenched high pressure system making for light winds and boats
barely moving on Lake Michigan, only 11 boats finished the annual
Chicago-to-Mackinac yacht race by Monday afternoon. Source: Chicago
Sun-Times (7/27)

Loving the lake levels
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Boaters' spirits have risen with water levels on lakes Huron and Michigan,
which are up 14 inches from last year, the largest increase on the Great
Lakes. Source: The Bay City Times (7/27)

Exotic species slip through ballast rule loophole
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State attorney generals in seven Great Lakes states are pressing the U.S.
Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency into closing regulatory
loopholes that allow ocean-going vessels to discharge biologically
contaminated ballast water in the Great Lakes. Source: St. Paul Pioneer
Press (7/26)

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