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Great Lakes Daily News: 05 August 2004

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$300 million bridge to Canada gets kick-start
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The private owners of the Ambassador Bridge have fired the opening shot in
the race to build another span between Detroit and Windsor. Source: The
Detroit News (8/5)

Davis-Besse reactor shuts down
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The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant reactor unexpectedly shut down Wednesday
during testing, marking the first glitch for the plant since it resumed
generating electricity at full capacity in April after being shut down for
two years. Source: The Ohio News Network (8/5)

Ohio begins aggressive cleanup of Cleveland lakefront parks
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State park officials are promising an aggressive assault on the weeds,
overgrown grass, graffiti and other unsightly matters that mar the Cleveland
Lakefront State Park system. Source: The Plain Dealer (8/5)

'Dog-strangling' vine choking upstate
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Ground zero for New York's swallow-wort invasion is at the eastern end of
Lake Ontario. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (8/5)

Illinois, Indiana cooperate on Calumet Harbor
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The Illinois and Indiana Departments of Natural Resources have created a new
reciprocal sportfishing agreement for the Calumet Harbor area of Lake
Michigan. Source: The Daily Herald (8/5)

Signs of life
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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's curator of botany is worried that
homeowners who live along Ohio's glacial lakes will unknowingly affect
aquatic plants with septic tank runoff, herbicides used to clear their
properties, and the planting or tolerance of invasive plant species.
Source: The Plain Dealer (8/5)

Tour of 1930s ship provides history lesson
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The ship that was once a lively host to up to 300 travelers and 46 crew
members, S.S. City of Milwaukee, is now a quiet floating museum that takes
visitors back five decades from the 1930s to the early 1980s. Source:
Lansing State Journal (8/5)

DeWine: Protect the Great Lakes
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Sen. Mike DeWine believes restoration and protection of the Great Lakes are
regional priorities that should be pursued by Ohio and its neighboring
states. Source: Port Clinton News Herald (8/4)

Researchers warn of declining American Eel population
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Over the past 30 years, eel populations along the Atlantic Seaboard and in
the Great Lakes have plummeted, which is seen as a shrill environmental
warning. Source: Voice of America (8/4)

Tall ships coming to Kenosha for Days of Discovery
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The maritime festival "Wind, Water & Song," will be held Aug. 4 to 8;
visitors will see four of the largest ships in the Great Lakes when they
sail into Kenosha harbor. Source: The Racine Journal Times (8/4)

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