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Great Lakes Daily News: 01 June 2006
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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No more sludge shipments, Toronto told
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A Michigan landfill site will no longer accept 30 trucks a day of treated sewage
sludge from the city of Toronto as of August 1 because locals who live in the
area are complaining about the smell. Source: CBC News (6/1)


COMMENTARY: Sharing the river
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Disputes between fly anglers and other users of Michigan's trout streams are
similar to America's political divide - most people are somewhere near the
middle and willing to compromise. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/1)


EDITORIAL: Put safety first on Wisconsin waters
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Making sure your boat meets safety requirements and then operating it in a safe
fashion will help ensure that you and your passengers enjoy Wisconsin's lakes
and rivers. Source: The Sheboygan Press (6/1)


Water quality iffy at Durand Beach in Rochester, NY
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A one-day analysis of water quality at Durand-Eastman beach, where swimming has
been banned for 40 years as a result of water pollution, indicates that the
shore there is no more contaminated than Rochester's primary swimming beach at
Ontario Beach Park. Source: The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (6/1)


Warming trend breeds climbing ozone levels
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While individuals look forward to warm weather and sunshine, they also need to
beware that the air they breathe may not be clean. Source: Algonquin
Countryside (6/1)


Grooming of beaches in limbo
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A provision of state law making it easier for Grand Traverse Bay shoreline
property owners to groom their beaches will expire on Monday. Source: Leelanau
Enterprise (6/1)


How smoggy? 11,000 particles per cubic centimetre
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The air at nose level along a busy road held almost 11,000 ultrafine pollution
particles per cubic centimetre yesterday afternoon -- 11,000 in a space the
size of a sugar cube -- as all of southern Ontario was blanketed by smog.
Source: The Hamilton Spectator (6/1)


Bylaws needed to install residential wind turbines
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The installation of a new energy source that would reduce one Ontario home
owner’s hydro bill is on hold until a new bylaw is in place for residential
wind turbine. Source: Leamington Post (5/31)


Beauties or beasts?
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Mute swans add stately elegance to lakes, but they're also a mean fowl on the
DNR's hit list. Source: The Jackson Citizen Patriot (5/29)


Indiana congressman lays out beach rules
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Three simple rules. That's what communities will have to follow if they want to
tap into millions of dollars from Uncle Sam to transform lakefront wastelands
into playlands, according to U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind. Source: The
Northwest Indiana Times (5/29)


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