[dailynews] April 11, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: April 11, 2011
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Ind. officials look at regulating septic systems
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Officials in northwestern Indiana are looking at whether there is a need to 
regulate the maintenance of septic systems, saying septic failures could be 
partly to blame for E. coli contamination in area waterways. Source: Chicago 
Tribune (4/11)


First 'saltie' hits the Twin Ports
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The first oceangoing vessel of the 2011 navigation season arrived in the 
Port of Duluth-Superior this morning. The Cyprus-flagged Federal Leda sailed 
beneath the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge at 7:10 a.m. and headed to Superior to 
begin loading durum wheat. Source: Superior Telegram (4/11)


COMMENTARY: Great potential in clean water idea
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Irek Kusmierczyk, the Liberal candidate in Windsor-Tecumseh, has a solid 
idea with tremendous potential: This city can become a global leader in 
clean water technology. Source: Windsor Star (4/11)


Great Lakes agency fears lamprey program cuts
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Proposed cutbacks in federal spending could wipe out years of progress 
toward controlling sea lampreys in the Great Lakes and restoring fish 
species devastated by the parasitic invaders, officials say. Source: Chicago 
Tribune (4/10)


Spring dawns on fabled Brule
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The Bois Brule River, known to most as simply the Brule, has long occupied a 
place of honor among American rivers. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
(4/10)


Chicago urges Army Corps to report on carp sooner
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Chicago is leaning on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fast-track an 
ongoing study to protect Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline - and the rest of 
the Great Lakes - from an Asian carp invasion. Source: Milwaukee Journal 
Sentinel (4/9)


Three SLU profs awarded NYPA environmental research grants
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Three St. Lawrence University professors have been awarded grants by the New 
York Power Authority's St. Lawrence River Research and Education Fund for 
two projects that will begin this summer. The fund supports environmental 
research and environmental education projects relating to the ecology of the 
St. Lawrence River watershed. Source: North Country Now (4/8)


Indian tribe close to reclaiming land
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The U.S. Department of Interior has agreed to return 15 acres of land on 
Wisconsin Point in Superior, land taken from the Fond du Lac Band in 1918. 
Source: Superior Telegram (4/6)


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