GLIN NEWS: 09 June 2009

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Great Lakes Daily News: 09 June 2009

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DNR investigates fish kill in Lake St. Clair
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Michigan wildlife experts want to know why thousands of dead fish are floating on Lake St. Clair near St. Clair Shores. Rotting fish, including smallmouth bass, muskie, walleye, perch and bass, are littering boat wells and shorelines across several miles. Source: The Detroit News (6/9)


Port of Green Bay, Great Lakes feel shipping downturn
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On June 1, 40 U.S.-flagged vessels were in service on the Great Lakes, compared with 75 the year before, according to the Ohio-based Lake Carriers Association. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (6/9)


Gravel is gold for area
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Do the math on the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects announced in Windsor over the past few weeks and it quickly becomes apparent it will take a flotilla of freighters to deliver the quantity of building materials required. Source: The Windsor Star (6/9)


The last four miles: Friends of the Parks unveils a plan for an entirely-open Chicago lakefront
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Chicagoans love to brag about their open, people-friendly lakefront. In reality, 4 of the city's 30 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline are unavailable to the public-cordoned off by an intimidating combination of high-rises, "Private Property" signs and fences topped by razor wire. Source: Chicago Tribune (6/9)


Kalamazoo River's renewal marked as more work lies ahead
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Redwinged blackbirds trilled and the water murmured in the background as speakers gathered on the banks of the Kalamazoo River Monday to celebrate its return, from industrial dump and dam site to river, wild and free. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (6/9)


First tests of soil come up clean in Crestwood
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Tests deep into the earth below Crestwood revealed no contamination on Monday, but may today when Illinois Environmental Protection Agency staff descend again on the village as part of their investigation into its hidden use of a tainted well. Source: The Southtown Star (6/9)


Wind turbine opposition reaches legislature
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Opposition to wind turbines in Pigeon Bay has reached the Ontario legislature. Last week MPP Bruce Crozier presented a petition signed by "thousands" of area residents opposed to any wind generating projects in the bay. Source: Learnington Post (6/9)


Cheboygan County threatens lawsuit to stop Genesee County water pipeline
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Cheboygan County, Michigan, is threatening to go to court to stop Genesee County's proposed water pipeline to Lake Huron. Source: The Flint Journal (6/8)


Ancient caribou-hunting camp may lie at bottom of Lake Huron
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Scientists probing an underwater ridge 35 metres deep in Lake Huron - and running 160 kilometres across the U.S.-Canadian border - have found what they believe to be 9,000-year-old traces of an ancient caribou-hunting camp used by some of the earliest inhabitants of North America. Source: The Windsor Star (6/8)


Monroe harbor dredging to begin soon
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Within the next two weeks, a contractor working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to begin dredging the River Raisin navigation channel from Lake Erie to the Port of Monroe turning basin. Source: The Monroe Evening News (6/8)


There's nothing fishy about big, numerous steelhead
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Most years, the St. Marys steelhead run would have petered out by June. This year, due to cooler water temperatures, the big fish are still thick in the rapids on the Canadian side of the river, and they should be there at least another two weeks. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/8)


Senator urges Corps to fund dredging of channel
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Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is calling on federal officials to support the dredging of the Port of Ogdensburg. Source: Watertown Daily Times (6/7)


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