GLIN NEWS: 27 May 2009

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Great Lakes Daily News: 27 May 2009

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Environmental Protection Agency announces dioxin review, plans for Dow cleanup
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The federal government will speed up a long-delayed assessment of how dioxins affect human health, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Source: The Associated Press (5/27)


To weed or not to weed is the question around West Michigan lakes
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Since 2000, the number of aquatic weed-control permit applications submitted to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has increased 62 percent. But while the statewide weed-control business has experienced that recent boom, early returns show a slight downturn this year. Source: The Grand Rapids Press (5/27)


Efforts under way to fix Oswego Harbor's crumbling breakwater
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Years of pounding waves and lake gales have taken a toll on Oswego Harbor's breakwater. Fearing the concrete wall will crumble and wash away, port and federal officials are pushing to have the harbor wall repaired. Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard (5/27)


Cormorant debate: Which part of the ecosystem to protect?
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While Canadian officials hope culling the habitat-altering cormorants will save an ecosystem that makes up just one percent of the country, others grapple with the ethics of re-engineering nature. Source: CBC News (5/27)


Lake sturgeon larvae 'Holy Grail' to area
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For the first time in 30 years, lake sturgeon are spawning on the Canadian side of the Detroit River. Source: The Windsor Star (5/27)


Waukesha need for lake water falls 23%
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The volume of Lake Michigan water the city likely will pursue to replace its ailing deep wells will be nearly 23% less than originally planned, a reduction credited to local water conservation initiatives. Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (5/26)


Environmental centre big polluter
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Ottawa is the second biggest offender when it comes to releasing pollutants into Ontario's lakes and rivers, says a provincial environmental group. Source: The North Bay Nugget (5/26)


Newest pest can cut you
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An aquatic invader is camping out on the banks of the Trent-Severn Waterway. The new undesirable is called the water soldier. It resembles an aloe vera plant, but with one significant difference: it is very sharp. Source: The Toronto Star (5/26)


COMMENTARY: City looks to Racine, Wis., for help on reducing E. coli
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Michigan City, Ind. plans to implement three of Racine's beach management practices for this summer's beach season: revised beach grooming, revised trash handling and wildlife feeding prohibitions. Source: The News-Dispatch (5/26)


Volunteers documenting ephemeral ponds in eastern Wisconsin
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This spring and last, several dozen volunteers spread out across 10 counties in eastern Wisconsin to get a close look at hundreds of depressions on the landscape that hold water for a short time. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (5/25)


Kalamazoo River cleanup continues with landfill cap
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Federal environmental officials announced this week that they have finalized a plan to cap a Kalamazoo Township landfill along the Kalamazoo River, part of the federal Superfund cleanup of the river. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (5/23)


Troubled water
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How are we faring as stewards of 20% of the world's freshwater? It may become more valuable than oil in the future. Source: Toronto Sun (5/23)


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