What's New Bush signs bill to clean waters that feed into Lakes The Detroit News (10/9) President Bush signed legislation Wednesday reauthorizing a federal program to clean up toxic contaminants from rivers and harbors that feed into the Great Lakes.
EDITORIAL: A Little Less to Worry About The New York Times (10/8) The Great Lakes Compact was only a start. While it will help preserve the quantity of water, the formidable and expensive task of protecting water quality lies ahead.
COMMENTARY: Bureaucrats shortchange Great Lakes cleanup plan The Toledo Blade (10/5) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator for water lobbied against our best interests by calling upon both chambers of Congress to reject the House version of a bill that would have reauthorized the Great Lakes Legacy Act at up to $150 million a year.
Raw sewage dumped into St. Lawrence near Montreal CBC News (9/23) A major airplane engine manufacturer dumped raw sewage in the St. Lawrence River off Montreal's south shore for several years with the government's knowledge, according to a CBC/Radio-Canada investigation.
House takes up bill to help clean up Great Lakes The Chicago Tribune / The Associated Press (9/18) The House is taking up the Great Lakes Legacy Act, which would expand a program to reduce contaminated sediments in the lakes.
Contaminated Sediments and the Great Lakes University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute This fact sheet explains how contaminants build up in sediment, how they affect the food chain and why the Great Lakes are susceptible.
Environmental Dredging U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Great Lakes Regional Headquarters Contaminated sediments have been dredged for environmental remediation at more than 30 Great Lakes sites. (Section 312 of WRDA 1990, as amended.)
Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Great Lakes Commission The Basin Program's purpose is to coordinate the efforts of the various levels of government with the specific goal of protecting and improving Great Lakes water quality by controlling soil erosion and sedimentation.
Moving Mud: Remediating Great Lakes Contaminated Sediments U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) Highlights sediment projects--including assessments, feasibility studies, remedial designs and remediations--funded during FY 1993-1996.
Nearshore Processes Program Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) Implemented in 1993, this program provides quantitative understanding of the transport, transformation, and fate of the contaminated materials and sediments as affected by hydrodynamic processes in the coastal nearshore region of the Great Lakes.
Realizing Remediation U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) A summary of contaminated sediment remediation activities in the Great Lakes basin.
Sediments Research Web An online community designed to promote improvements in the management and remediation of contaminated sediments.
Publications Guidance for In-Situ Subaqueous Capping of Contaminated Sediments U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) Includes descriptions of the processes involved with in-situ capping, identification of the design equirements of an in-situ capping project and a recommended sequence for design.