[dailynews] October 24, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: October 24, 2011
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Great Lakes conference coming to Erie
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Scientists, policymakers, and government officials from the U.S. and Canada will gather this week in Pennsylvania's only Great Lakes city to hear what's good and bad about the health of the lakes. Source: Erie Time-News (10/24)


Every square inch of the Upper Peninsula's shoreline in one place
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The Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Trust just launched the Great Lakes Shoreviewer, which is an online database full of photos and maps of every inch of the Michigan Upper Peninsula coast. Source: Great Lakes Echo (10/24)


Residents have plenty of thoughts about Waukesha water request
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Waukesha's precedent-setting pursuit of Lake Michigan water has captured the public's attention, judging from more than 100 citizen comments posted online by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/23)


Basins separation could hurt water quality
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A hydrological separation of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins would send Asian carp swimming back downstream, but would also alter water quality. Source: The Telegraph - Alton, IL (10/23)


Cleanup of dead birds on Georgian Bay to begin Monday
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Thousands of dead birds that washed ashore along a stretch of Georgian Bay were to be picked up starting Monday. Source: The Toronto Star (10/23)


DeTour Reef Light celebrates 80 years
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The DeTour Reef lighthouse, completed in 1931, has stood guard for eighty years a mile offshore in northern Lake Huron, at the far eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Source: Soo Evening News (10/22)


Is the Illinois River a glimpse at Lake Erie's future? The battle against Asian carp
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Given how adaptable and resilient Asian carp are, and how they can easily overwhelm an ecosystem, it is impossible not to imagine what would happen should these fish come to Lake Erie. Source: The Plain Dealer (10/22)


Great Lakes shipping has massive impact
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A recent study of U.S. and Canadian ports reviewed direct and indirect employment, personal income, business revenue, local purchases and taxes, and environmental impacts associated with the maritime transit industry. Source: Ashland Current (10/21)


Drinking water safety & green building architect
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A system that monitors drinking water for at least three million people in southeast Michigan will stay online for another year, though policymakers are still searching for a long-term solution. Source: The Environment Report (10/20)


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