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Great Lakes Daily News: 25 March 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Busy opening expected for Soo Locks
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The opening of the Soo Locks at 12:02 a.m. today heralds the start of the Great Lakes navigation season in the Port of Duluth-Superior on Saturday. Source: Duluth News Tribune (3/25)


COMMENTARY: Federal funding needed to study drop in Great Lakes water levels
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When lake levels are low, loss of water can have devastating and costly consequences for homeowners and boaters, as well as for fish and wildlife that depend on coastal habitat for spawning or nesting grounds. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/25)


COMMENTARY: Soak up knowledge of the Great Lakes
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If you're interested in salmon in lakes Michigan and Huron, you can learn a lot at some conferences and informational meetings hosted next month by the Michigan Sea Grant programs and the Department of Natural Resources. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/25)


Residents question safety of water lines
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Officials say they will meet with homeowners in unincorporated Downers Grove Township and investigate whether hookups to Lake Michigan water that were prompted because their well water was tainted with cancer-causing chemicals were done in a shoddy and perhaps even dangerous way. Source: Chicago Tribune (3/25)


Start of shipping season brings warnings of lake invaders
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Ships navigating the St. Lawrence Seaway may carry more than coal and grain through the Great Lakes, say environmentalists, who warned Thursday about potential secondary "cargo" like killer shrimp or monkey gobies. Source: Newsday.com (3/24)


Border patrol boat on Lake Ontario
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This week, a patrol boat was put into Lake Ontario as part of a beefed up effort to make our border entries more secure by patrol agents. Source: WROC-TV (3/24)


EDITORIAL: Mercury pollution/EPA suppresses dissenting study
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It should surprise no one that the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to justify its relaxed approach to regulating mercury pollution, ignored the inconvenient findings of its own commissioned cost/benefit study. Source: Star Tribune (3/24)


Toronto sewage spill raises a stink
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Tons of treated human excrement coated an intersection in downtown Flat Rock when a 50-ton truck skidded to a stop about 6 a.m. and lost some of its load. Source: The Detroit News (3/24)


Liberals vow to get tougher on water polluters
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Legislation that would fine industrial water polluters in Ontario up to $100,000 a day will be pushed forward this spring. Source: The Toronto Star (3/23)


Land use planning takes regional focus
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Local governments surrounding Grand Traverse Bay will meet in upcoming months to discuss the Michigan's Joint Municipal Planning Act, which allows regional land use planning across jurisdictional boundaries. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (3/22)


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