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Great Lakes Daily News: 23 August 2006
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Wrecked ship's historic bell comes back to light
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Divers have retrieved the bell of the Cortland, last rung in 1868, from the site of the Lake Erie shipwreck, discovered just a year ago. Source: The Plain Dealer (8/23)


Perry memorial to reopen
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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial on Lake Erie, closed since late June when a 500-pound chunk of granite fell from the top of the monument, will reopen Saturday. Source: The Toledo Blade (8/23)


Mercury remains a major concern
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Coal is the last remaining major cause of mercury pollution that remains unregulated, and with more than 30 new coal-fired power plants proposed for Great Lakes states, that raises concerns. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/23)


Slimy green algae makes a comeback
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The southeastern coast of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, which separates the lake from Green Bay, is a notorious spot for the slimy, green algae called cladophora. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/23)


Wisconsin panel balks at DNR limits on herbicide byproduct in wells
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A state legislative committee has balked at approving rules proposed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for limiting a farm herbicide byproduct in groundwater. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/22)


'Factory farms' fight image problem, odor
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At one of Wisconsin's largest dairy operations, new technologies are helping to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution, generate electricity from methane gas and create organic bedding material from the herd's solid waste. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/22)


EDITORIAL: Sand company should face reality and just move on
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Now that a state court has upheld a decision prohibiting Nugent Sand from piping excess water through an sensitive sand due, it's time for the sand mining company to get on with business. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (8/22)


Greening Michigan's brownfields
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A professor at Michigan State University is trying to raise biofuel crops on a former superfund site in order to see whether such plants can flourish in tainted earth. Source: Lansing State Journal (8/22)


Even sewers affected by Great Lakes compact
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An interstate compact that bans large-scale water diversions from the Great Lakes basin has complicated the design of a storm-sewer separation system for South Bend, Ind. Source: South Bend Tribune (8/21)


The graves of Thunder Bay
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A first-time diver is introduced to the wonder of some of the 200 shipwrecks that litter the bottom of Lake Huron's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Source: Detroit Free Press (8/20)


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