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Great Lakes Daily News: 09 August 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Delayed toxic cleanup puts public at risk
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The bank accounts that pay for cleaning thousands of toxic dumps and
cast-off factories across Michigan are nearly empty, raising fears that
needed cleanups will be delayed, scaled back or scrapped altogether. Source:
The Detroit News (8/9)

EPA administrator touring Great Lakes
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This spring, EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt was asked to head up a task
force to coordinate local, state, and federal agencies in cleaning up the
Great Lakes. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (8/9)

Fish sample shows unsafe mercury levels
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Fish sampled in more than 100 lakes in Michigan were contaminated with
levels of mercury that in most cases exceeded safe levels for women of
childbearing age and young children. Source: The Detroit News (8/9)

Region lagging in underground storage tank cleanup
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Most Great Lakes states have been slow to put together federally approved
programs to clean up underground storage tanks leaking fuel and other
contaminants into the surrounding soil and water. Source: Great Lakes Radio
Consortium (8/9)

Ontario, polluters told to clean up
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Ontario needs to crack down harder on industrial polluters, says a new
report into toxic spills in a pollution-prone stretch of the St. Clair River
dubbed Chemical Alley. Source: The Toronto Star (8/9)

EDITORIAL: Battling alien invaders
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Concerned scientists are struggling to find a defence against these looming
threats and to orchestrate a counterattack against the invaders that are
already here. Source: The Toronto Star (8/8)

Beach closings, warnings in Michigan buck trend
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The number of days that America's beaches closed or posted warnings because
of pollution rose sharply in 2003, but Michigan bucked the trend with a
sharp drop in closings, an environmental group says. Source: The Detroit
News (8/8)

Lakes observatory gains new director
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USGS researcher Steve Colman has been hired to head the Large Lakes
Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Source: Duluth News
Tribune (8/7)

Massive project awaits water authority
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A massive public works project is planned to bring Lake Michigan water to
inland Wisconsin suburbs. It will cost $98 million, take two years to build
and will bury 65 miles of pipeline 6 feet underground. Source: Green Bay
Press-Gazette (8/6)

Government lakes study aims to help protect species
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To keep common aquatic species abundant in the Great Lakes region, the
federal government is in the midst of an eight-year effort to identify
habitats requiring additional protection. Source: Duluth News Tribune (8/6)

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