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Great Lakes Daily News: 01 November 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Study: Dredging a drain on the Great Lakes
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While the region's governors are pushing for tighter restrictions on the diversion of Great Lakes water, an engineering study reports that a billion gallons a day are being sent out to sea as a result of dredging the St. Clair River. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/1)


Uncharted waters
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Following the collapse of plans to expand the St. Lawrence Seaway to modern container ships, debate is heating up over the future of the system and its aging infrastructure. Last of three parts. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/1)


Research institute gets algae grant
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Duluth's Natural Resources and Research Institute has received a federal grant to study algae in rivers across the Midwest, part of the larger Great Rivers Project to develop new ways of monitoring the health of rivers. Source: Duluth News Tribune (11/1)


Indianapolis gives go-ahead to sewer overhaul
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Indianapolis will launch a three-pronged approach to overhaul the city sewer system, including a deep tunnel to store overflows and prevent storm-related discharges. Source: The Indianapolis Star (11/1)


EDITORIAL: Border insecurity
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Efforts to streamline Canada's border security to meet the demands of a 21st century, post-9/11 world appear to have ground to a halt in the congealed mud of immovable bureaucracy. Source: The London Free Press (11/1)


Ten threats: Farmland to wetlands
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Before Great Lakes farmers could work the fields in the nation's bread basket, they had to drain millions of acres of wetlands. These days, some of those wetlands are being restored. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/31)


Port Burwell ferry closer to reality
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Port Burwell is the latest candidate for a Canadian port in a Lake Erie ferry system that would connect with Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Source: The Tillsonburg News (10/31)


Noxious cargo
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As many as 90 percent of the oceangoing ships arriving in the St. Lawrence Seaway don't officially carry ballast, and are therefore exempt from the ballast exchange law aimed at preventing the arrival of invasive species. Second of three parts. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/31)


Senate gives nod to Mackinaw museum
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Legislation to keep the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw in its home port of Cheboygan, Mich. as a maritime museum has been passed by Congress and needs only the president's signature to become official. Source: Cheboygan Daily Tribune (10/31)


EDITORIAL: Lakes, pipes and pumps
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Michigan, the one state that lies almost completely within the Great Lakes basin, must lead the defense of the lakes. Source: Detroit Free Press (10/30)


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