[dailynews] December 6, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: December 6, 2011
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Great Lakes water levels
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The water level of Lake Michigan dropped 2? in the last month, but it's 4? above the level of one year ago. The lake is now 11? below the century average. Source: WOOD TV8 (12/6)


Anti-fracking advocates send NY water to Pa. town
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Advocates who want to keep the natural-gas drilling industry out of New York state are sending clean water to a northeastern Pennsylvania village. About a dozen households in Dimock, Pa., have been scrambling after a gas driller blamed for polluting the aquifer halted daily water deliveries. Source: Wall Street Journal (12/6)


Hearing to focus on Lake Erie algae
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Ohio Reps. Dennis Murray, D-Sandusky, and Randy Gardner, R-Bowling Green, will hold a subcommittee field hearing of the House of Representatives Agriculture and Natural Resource Committee on the health of Lake Erie from 10 a.m. to noon Friday at the Lake Erie Islands Regional Welcome Center, 770 S.E. Catawba Road. Source: The News-Messenger (12/6)


Is fracking safe for the water supply?
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When the subject is hydraulic fracturing and injecting oilfield brine - including the water and chemicals used in "fracking" operations - the safety of groundwater resources in the area is a natural question. The city of Mount Vernon, in meetings with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, is already asking those questions in order to maintain the safety of its water supply. Source: Mount Vernon News (12/6)


Schools look at natural gas on Great Lakes
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The Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute is a consortium of the University of Wisconsin-Superior and the University of Minnesota-Duluth.  The institute received a five-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration to carry out the research to address maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. Source: Ashland Current (12/5)


EPA defends ballast water proposal
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The proposal beefs up equipment onboard cargo vessels, most of them ocean-going "salties," so most foreign organisms in the ballast water are killed. People can submit comments to the EPA or go to public hearings in Washington or one in Chicago on January 23. The new rules would take effect in mid-December 2013. Source: Ashland Current (12/5)


Lake Ontario Atlantic salmon arriving at Fleming College
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Through Bring Back the Salmon (BBTS), also known as the Lake Ontario Atlantic Salmon Restoration Program, approximately 75,000 Atlantic Salmon eggs will soon be arriving at the school's educational hatchery.The school's fisheries students will raise the emerging  fish until they will be released into the Cobourg Brook, near Cobourg. Source: Wall Street Journal (12/5)


$25K to clean up Mirror Lake's reflection
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As students enjoy the annual tradition of jumping into Mirror Lake the week of the Ohio State-Michigan game, it comes at a cost to the university. OSU Landscape Services and Facilities Operations and Development paid nearly $25,000 to clean the area and repair and fix damages from the jump. Source: The Lantern (12/4)


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