[dailynews] July 12, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: July 12, 2011
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Satellite system warns swimmers, treatment plants of harmful algae
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Satellite images of Lake Erie sent right to your inbox can warn you about harmful algae in the lake before you decide to visit. Source: Great Lakes Echo (7/12)


EDITORIAL: Fairness key in resolving fish kill in Great Lakes
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After almost 40 years of an unbalanced situation, there appears to be a movement on the part of the federal government to enact new rules to reduce fish kills in the Great Lakes due to power plant intake operations. Source: The Republic (7/12)


The battle over ballast waters
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As a hold is filled, a ship is kept level by pumping water out of the ballast tanks. The trouble is that all of that ballast water could have been collected from anywhere on the planet, and has been a very effective mechanism to transport invasive species. Source: WBEZ - Chicago, IL (7/11)


Un-reversing the Chicago River
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Back in the 19th century, Chicago had a problem: its river went the wrong way, washing sewage into its drinking water supply in Lake Michigan. The solution sounded crazy: turn the river around. But that's just what Chicago did, and it's been patting itself on the back ever since. Source: WBEZ - Chicago, IL (7/11)


Lake Michigan is sloshing around today
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Hurricane-speed winds over Lake Michigan yesterday actually dragged a lot of water to the Michigan side of the lake, causing a phenomenon called a seiche, or a very pronounced tide in a body of water that doesn't experience tides. Source: The Chicago Reader (7/11)


Waukesha to begin busy process of gaining state approval of water deal
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Waukesha, WI must clear numerous regulatory hurdles in a four-month-long steeplechase beginning in a few weeks if the city is to have a shot at buying Lake Michigan drinking water in the future. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/11)


Great Lakes Aquarium joins battle against invaders
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At the Great Lakes Aquarium an exhibit, "Aquatic Invaders," is intended to educate the public about the threat of invasive species like sea lampreys - jawless fish that use their sucker-like mouths to piggyback onto other fish. Source: Duluth News Tribune (7/11)


It's summertime, and the beaches are trashy
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Chicago Park District officials are using cutting-edge technology to clean up area beaches. Source: Chicago Tribune (7/11)


Lake trout health advisory expanded for Lake Michigan: steer clear
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The Michigan Department of Community Health has expanded its Michigan Fish Advisory for Lake Michigan to include all legal-sized catch of lake trout - 20 inches or larger. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (7/11)


Hanging ten in Shorewood
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Nationally-recognized local surfer, Blake Meisinger (14), will share Aloha on Malibu waves after creating a following in the Great Lakes. Source: The Shorewood Patch (7/11)


Wisconsin tests dead alewives for fish disease VHS
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Wisconsin is testing more fish from Lake Michigan for viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, a disease that can cause large fish kills. Source: Interlochen Public Radio (7/11)


EDITORIAL: Hey, Ohio! Lake Erie isn't all yours
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The rest of the states and provinces in the Great Lakes Basin have too much to lose if Ohio treats Lake Erie and its tributaries as the state's personal asset for unilateral siphoning. Source: Detroit Free Press (7/9)


Answer for invasive species: put it on a plate and eat it
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An increasing number of environmentalists, consumer groups, and scientists are seriously testing a novel solution to control aquatic invasive species: they want Americans to step up to their plates and start eating invasive critters in large numbers. Source: The New York Times (7/9)


COMMENTARY: Great Lakes protection: feds hit the brakes - states hit reverse
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This year's Great Lakes Week in Detroit, MI may actually become a "precedent setting mega-event," but only if host organizations work to engage the region's premiers, governors, and legislators in an economic and environmental race to the top. Source: Great Lakes Echo (7/8)


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