[dailynews] September 20, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: September 20, 2011
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City to build 4 boathouses on Chicago River
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The announcement follows recent efforts to improve water quality in parts of the Chicago River and the Little Calumet River to make the waterways safer for recreation. Source: Chicago Tribune (9/20)


Tensions between water, power needs explored
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In a city that's staking its economic image on water research and policy, one paradox will become unavoidable: Water purification requires huge amounts of electricity, while utilities use large volumes of water to generate electricity. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/20)


WI DNR fish passage permit rejected
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Ozaukee County offered to pay the estimated $1.6 million costs of building the passage around the dam as part of a federally funded program to eliminate barriers to fish passage in the Milwaukee River watershed. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/20)


Illinois eats its Asian carp
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It's part of the Target Hunger Now campaign, a state-sponsored humanitarian effort to turn the jumbo jumping carp into "healthy, ready to serve meals" for the needy. The program also provides venison to the poor. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/20)


Great Lakes cargo traffic sinks 7 percent from July to August
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Cargo traffic on the Great Lakes dipped almost 7 percent in August from July, but the amount of cargo carried by U.S.-flag freighters last month was on par with the five-year average for the month. Source: Green Bay Press Gazette (9/20)


Stormwater projects set for local beaches
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Local officials recently used dogs to track human sewage in northern Michigan's Traverse Bay and Holland's Lake Macatawa. Source: Traverse City Record Eagle (9/20)


Canadian grain shipment increase boosts Seaway numbers for August
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The year-to-date total for Canadian grain, according to Andrew Bogora, communications and public relations officer of St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, has increased by 19 per cent. Source: Brockville Recorder and Times (9/20)


EDITORIAL: Set reasonable standard
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New York should relax its regulations on ballast discharge, as Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states, and Canada, are asking. No one wants more invasive species coming into the lakes, but it doesn't make much sense to enforce standards that are impossible to meet. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/20)


EDITORIAL: Ohio energy summit and energy policy both need a wide reach
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Ohio also needs to preserve the national advantage in next-generation energy investments that comes from having one of the nation's most comprehensive renewable portfolio standards, adopted in 2008. Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (9/19)


Army Corps of Engineers welcomes new leader
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Col. Margaret W. Burcham received command of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during a formal ceremony at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Source: Cincinnati.com (9/19)


Why Buffalo is bouncing back faster than Atlanta
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Some metropolitan areas that were particularly hard hit by the recession-in California and the Great Lakes, specifically-have managed to recover relatively quickly, while much of the South and some Mountain states have lagged behind. Source: Washington Post (9/19)


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