[dailynews] April 5, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: April 5, 2011
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Milwaukee pioneers innovative stormwater controls
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Milwaukee built some of the region's first sewers more than 130 years ago to 
carry untreated wastewater into rivers and the lake. But today the city is a 
national leader in reducing stormwater runoff. Source: Great Lakes Echo 
(4/5)


Debris could keep boaters at bay
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Chatham-Kent's tourism industry will receive a major blow this summer if a 
giant debris field in Lake St. Clair at the mouth of the Thames River isn't 
removed. Source: The Chatham Daily News (4/4)


Zion nuclear plant being shut down
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The nuclear power plant north of Chicago in Zion, Ill., is being shut down 
and eliminated. Source: WLS-TV - Chicago, IL (4/4)


Numbers down, but smelt fishing tradition endures
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Smelt fishing on Lake Michigan's shoreline isn't what it used to be, yet it 
continues to be a great Chicago tradition. Source: Chicago Tribune (4/4)


Grand Valley's renewable energy center in Muskegon links with Spanish center
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Officials with Grand Valley State University's Muskegon-based 
renewable-energy center say a new partnership with a Spanish counterpart 
will lead to more advanced wind energy research on the Great Lakes. Source: 
Muskegon Chronicle (4/4)


Green energy industry in limbo
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Renewable energy officials throughout Wisconsin are forecasting grim 
financial and employment futures because of the status of the wind energy 
industry in the state. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (4/3)


Sauk Village's water woes flow on
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After two years, the roughly $10 million dollar water quality question that 
boiled over at a Sauk Village Board meeting last month is going to find a 
place on the November ballot. Source: The Northwest Indiana Times (4/3)


Reeling in springtime on Bois Brule
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Wisconsin's Bois Brule River, known to most as simply the Brule, has long 
occupied a place of honor among American rivers. Source: Milwaukee Journal 
Sentinel (4/2)


Fond du Lac Band closer to gaining control of Wisconsin Point land
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The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is one step closer to gaining 
control of land its ancestors once occupied on the end of Wisconsin Point in 
Superior. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/2)


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