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Great Lakes Daily News: 01 April 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
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Equipment failure sends sewage into the Little Calumet River
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The Chesterton Sewage Treatment Plant is getting rid of part of its monitoring system that failed to prevent a spill into the Little Calumet River during storms early Thursday morning. Source: Merrillville Post-Tribune (4/1)


Legislation would cut Minnesota mercury emissions
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Frustrated at slow federal action, Minnesota's lawmakers have introduced legislation that would cut mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants in the state by 90 percent by 2011. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/1)


Manitowoc pipeline approved
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A drinking-water pipe-line from Manitowoc will best meet the needs of Brown County in the future, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin said Thursday in approving the 65-mile project. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (4/1)


Emissions amendment no problem for mining industry in Canada
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The Canadian mining industry says it has no problem with a proposal to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, a key provision in the minority Liberal government's environmental policy and one that threatens a political crisis when Parliament begins its spring session. Source: The Globe and Mail (4/1)


New rules clarify rules about snowmobile presence near Apostles
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The National Park Service today is expected to publish a new rule in the Federal register that will clear up confusion over where snowmobiles can travel around the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/1)


Rare 'stick' fish seen in Rouge River
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Biologists are expressing optimism about the improving health of the Rouge River after the discovery of a rare species of fish inhabiting the Scarborough waterway near the river's mouth at Lake Ontario. Source: Ontario Mirror Guardian (4/1)


Winter's road sand clogs area streams
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Duluth's pilot project encourages residents to clean up the sand before it runs downstream. Source: Duluth News Tribune (3/31)


Preparing for the life aquatic
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Marine training cadets learn to navigate by stars or computer in the three-year marine-navigation program at The Great Lakes International Marine Training Centre at Georgian College, the only school in Ontario to offer marine training. Source: The Toronto Star (3/31)


Researchers find a whopper ready to spawn in river
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At 6 feet 3 inches and more than 135 pounds, a recently discovered female is the biggest sturgeon researchers have yet pulled from Muskegon Lake. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (3/31)


Hoping to reverse history and pollution
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The Onondaga Nation has filed a federal lawsuit claiming ownership of a 3,100-square-mile swath of New York State, stretching from Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Pennsylvania border. Source: The New York Times (3/31)


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