[dailynews] August 4, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: August 4, 2011
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Where food grows on water: environmental and human-made threats to Wisconsin's wild rice
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For generations, the upper Great Lakes region has boasted harvests of wild rice, growing in Lake Superior and other watersheds within the basin. But disease, dams, and climate change are now endangering the uncultivated bounty. Source: Circle of Blue (8/4)


Teen's Lake Erie swim on hold till 2012
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It was last August that 13-year-old Santiago Vadillo had the desire to swim across Lake Erie.  Though plans are hold due to international race regulations, if Vadillo is successful in his swim early next summer, he will be the youngest person to accomplish that feat. Source: The Guelph Mercury (8/4)


Is this dead zone technique more acceptable for thwarting carp invasion?
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They are deadly for aquatic life and take years of pollution to develop, yet
some scientists now say the creation of dead zones through nitrogen injections could deter the Asian carp from using the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to enter the Great Lakes. Source: Great Lakes Echo (8/4)


Coalition awards grants for Great Lakes cleanup
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The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition has awarded $115,000 in grants to nine groups for Great Lakes restoration projects. Source: Seattle PI (8/4)


EDITORIAL: Clean water critical to Michigan
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that could greatly limit the EPA's ability to continue to regulate programs which have, for nearly four decades, helped clean up our Great Lakes. Source: The Detroit News (8/4)


Strike lays up 5 American Steamship Co. ships in Sturgeon Bay
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Five cargo ships in the American Steamship Co. Great Lakes fleet are laid up in Sturgeon Bay, WI after a strike that began at midnight Sunday. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (8/4)


SS Badger car ferry wants to dump coal ash in lake till 2017
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The operator of the Great Lakes region's last coal-fired ferry is asking officials in Michigan and Wisconsin to support its bid for an additional five year exemption from federal rules against dumping coal ash in Lake Michigan. Source: The Michigan Messenger (8/3)


Are beaches public where roads end? Question roils Great Lakes legal waters
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A 40-year struggle symbolizes growing conflicts throughout the Great Lakes over who can do what where a public road stops at a lake. Source: Great Lakes Echo (8/3)


Self-unloading carriers popping up in St. Lawrence Seaway
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New Chinese-built self-unloading bulk carriers are showing up in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system. Source: The Montreal Gazette (8/3)


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