[dailynews] June 27, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: June 27, 2011
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A dam problem (Part 3)
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Continuing this week's focus on fish for the series "Swimming Upstream," Dustin Dwyer traveled to the site of a former trout farm along the headwaters of the Manistee River, near Grayling, to learn about the complex world of dam removal. Source: The Environment Report (6/27)


Erie's fishery: the power plant threat
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While Lake Erie water quality has been, and should continue to be, the focus of cleanups, pollution isn't the only threat to the lake's ecosystem. So are power plants on the U.S. shore and they are killing hundreds of millions of fish each year. Source: The Windsor Star (6/27)


U.P. village of Grand Marais celebrates $4M boost to restore harbor
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Residents and leaders in the unincorporated Upper Peninsula village of Grand Marais are celebrating a $4-million state appropriation that will allow the long-sought restoration of its breakwater and harbor. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/27)


International St. Lawrence River Control Board lowers water levels...but how low will they go?
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This spring's rain has left water levels on Lake Ontario well above normal--higher than the International St Lawrence River Board of Control is comfortable with. To fix the problem, the board earlier this month started letting more water out at the Moses-Saunders dam in Massena, NY. Source: North Country Public Radio (6/27)


Great Lakes projects get federal money
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Several Michigan projects have won funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, money that Congress is putting into restoring the Great Lakes. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/27)


EDITORIAL: Legislature's unseemly haste endangers Great Lakes' health
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Recently it appeared that the greatest threat to the health of the Great Lakes was the Asian carp. Now, however, a new threat to the Great Lakes has emerged, and it is Ohio business interests and their acolytes in Columbus that are the source of consternation. Source: The Youngstown Vindicator (6/27)


Public input sought on Lake Huron's north shoreline resources
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The Eastern Upper Peninsula Regional Planning & Development Commission (EUPRP&DC) is starting the planning process for inventorying recreational resources along Michigan's Lake Huron Shoreline and creating a website to promote those resources. Source: Soo Evening News (6/26)


Great Lakes Water Festival promotes stewardship, advocacy, fun
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A festival with a cause, the Great Lakes Water Festival in Lowell, MI aimed to promote environmental stewardship and mobilize the public to advocate for action on issues facing West Michigan's lakes and rivers. Source: The Grand Rapids Press (6/26)


Treatment plants continuing to fight new mercury regulations
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Ohio wastewater treatment plants are applying for a variance to a federal regulation, which would allow them to discharge mercury into Lake Erie at levels that exceed federal limits. Source: The News-Herald (6/25)


Great Lakes czar touts restoration
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Cameron Davis, senior adviser to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, touts the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative created by Obama that includes priority projects of mitigating toxic hot spots, invasive species, beaches, habitat and accountability and education. Source: The Northwest Indiana Times (6/24)


Because of climate change, fears of a Great Lakes 'dead zone'
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University of Michigan's David Scavia discusses a frightening potential climate change scenario: the possibility for each of the Great Lakes to become a dead zone -- a water body stripped of oxygen where no fish or plants can survive. Source: WBEZ - Chicago, IL (6/24)


Sea lamprey surveys will soon be underway
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The continuing battle against sea lampreys soon will come to locations in Wisconsin. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will conduct surveys off the mouths of the Sand (Bayfield Co.) and Brule (Douglas Co.) rivers to determine the need for sea lamprey control. Source: The Ashland Daily Press (6/24)


COMMENTARY: Wanted: Business as an honest environmental partner
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Some Great Lakes business stakeholder groups may be using deceptive tactics to pitch their own interests under environmental auspices. Source: Great Lakes Echo (6/24)


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