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GLIN NEWS: 15 September 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 15 September 2004 A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Beach walkers face legal roadblock
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Legal cases in Michigan and Ohio have grown into a fight over public access to hundreds of miles of picturesque Great Lakes shoreline. Source: The Indianapolis Star (9/15)

Securing Lake Michigan duneland
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A coalition of governments and conservation groups is working to purchase 413 acres of Lake Michigan shoreline and duneland near Saugatuck south of the Kalamazoo River. Source: The Holland Sentinel (9/15)

Water-diversion permit plan draws fire
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Representatives of farmers and business owners told the state's top official on the Great Lakes Tuesday that they're worried a proposed interstate accord to restrict new or increased withdrawals of water from the five Great Lakes will hurt Michigan's economy. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/15)

If condos get OK, beach to be shadow of its old self
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Chicago City Council Zoning Committee members will consider a new proposal to build a pair of condominium towers along Lake Michigan whose combined shadows on late-August afternoons would cover about 75 percent of the beach used by several hundred thousand people a year. Source: Chicago Tribune (9/15)

Taking stock of waterfront
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Thirty years and 40 studies later, the City of Kingston is moving to harmonize the patchwork of regulations that govern waterfront properties, including the shorelines along Lake Ontario. Source: The Kingston Whig-Standard (9/14)

Water-borne diseases new Great Lakes threat
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Emerging new diseases not previously contracted from water, carried by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, may present the greatest risk to the aquatic environment and public health, a report on water quality in the Great Lakes warns. Source: The Toronto Star (9/14)

Fall color right on time
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Despite claims from some so-called experts that this year's fall colors would come earlier than usual, most healthy Northland trees appear to be turning about on schedule. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/14)

Emerald ash borer a small pest for region
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Survey crews snooping around woods and neighborhoods haven't found any new signs of the emerald ash borer in northeast Indiana, a state official said Monday. Source: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (9/14)

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