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Great Lakes Daily News: 26 June 2009
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Residents cry foul as city opens temporary dump sites
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Toronto's Sunnyside Park on Lake Ontario is the location of a large, temporary garbage dump that promises to significantly change the views, smell and traffic patterns near the historic waterfront park. Source: The Globe and Mail (6/26)
Hot weather brings harmless but ugly 'scum' to Lake Michigan shoreline
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Researchers found that a thick, greenish substance floating on portions of Lake Michigan between Muskegon and Grand Haven consists only of "natural, organic material." Source: The Muskegon Chronicle (6/26)
COMMENTARY: Stimulus cash needs to go right down the drain
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Although much human waste in Canada now gets properly cleaned up in treatment plants, much doesn't. Waste-water effluent - human waste, prescription drugs, debris of all sorts - has become the biggest source of pollution in Canadian waters. Source: The Globe and Mail (6/26)
Dune stewards posting new blog
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Sportsmen, environmentalists and anyone interested in discovering the unique ecology of the area may be interested in reading a new blog written this summer by stewards of the eastern Lake Ontario dunes and wetlands and the Salmon River area. Source: Watertown Daily Times (6/26)
Family of ospreys take up residence atop St. Lawrence Seaway crane
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A family of ospreys perched high atop a crane at the Iroquois locks will likely migrate before the crane's pulley system is needed at the end of the shipping season, St. Lawrence Seaway officials said. Source: The Cornwall Standard Freeholder (6/26)
GE clean technology center bringing jobs to Michigan
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General Electric Corp. plans to announce Friday that it will open a research and development center in metro Detroit with at least 1,200 new jobs to explore clean technology. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/25)
2 key FutureGen partners drop out, leaving Ill. project looking for more
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Just two weeks after the federal government revived plans to build the FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois, two of the experimental coal plant's financial backers said Thursday they are withdrawing. Source: Chicago Tribune (6/25)
Report: Genesee County water pipeline would cost $600 million, save area $200 million
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Building a new water pipeline to Lake Huron will cost a staggering $600 million initially, but potentially save the area $200 million during the next 30 years, a new feasibility study on the project says. Source: The Flint Journal (6/25)
Dredging begins: Stimulus money used to dredge harbor deeper than usual
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The bottom of Michigan's Ludington harbor will soon be deeper than it's been in years after the current dredging project ends. The $1.3 million project started this week and is expected to last until late July. Source: Ludington Daily News (6/25)
Strategies for reducing sewage overflows
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The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District allowed overflows of nearly one billion gallons of sewage and storm water during the thunderstorms late last week. Experts say the overflows can't be helped during very heavy rains, at least not yet. Source: WUWM Milwaukee (6/25)
Swimming with E. coli
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The Great Lakes comprise one-fifth of the world's surface fresh water. They have also endured centuries of abuse. But advocates are cheerful these days, as restoration is increasingly seen as an economic boon, not a drain. Source: The Economist (6/25)
Bald eagle sightings soaring
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Bald eagles are nesting at six confirmed locations in southeastern Wisconsin - compared with only two as recently as 2007 - and a steadily increasing number of people are calling state Department of Natural Resources offices to report eagles flying over their communities. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (6/25)
Economy forces many charters to stay docked
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The economic hard times are stretching to the waters of Lake Michigan. Fewer charter captains are taking fewer clients on fishing trips. Source: WBAY-TV Green Bay (6/25)
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