[dailynews] May 25, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: May 25, 2012
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Beach managers use new technology to check bacteria levels in Lake Michigan
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In Chicago, the Park District will use a new high-tech system that uses computer software to give real-time predictions of bacteria counts based on such factors as water temperature, modeling of the lake bottom and wave action monitored by buoys. Source: Chicago Tribune (5/25)


COMMENTARY: Can Lake Erie algae spark environmental action like the Cuyahoga River fire?
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Few issues have united Great Lakes Democrats and Republicans, at least in rhetoric, like Lake Erie's algae. Source: Great Lakes Echo (5/25)


Hi-tech sub will check Lake Huron line for trouble
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Most of the weak spots along the line's 47-kilometre route from Grand Bend to London have been patched, but the submersible device to be launched later this year will be used to see if there are others just waiting to rupture. Source: London Free Press (5/25)


Lake Metroparks acquires 30 acres of Lake Erie wetlands for free
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This swath of mixed habitats will become a component of the agency's existing 153-acre Arcola Creek Park, which is bordered by Dock Road on the West, County Line Road on the east, Lake Erie to the north and then upstream. Source: News Herald (5/25)


Two 60-pound Asian carp found in isolated Chicago lagoon
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The lagoon is not connected to Lake Michigan or canals that connect the lake to the Illinois River, and the fish couldn't have gotten out on their own and could not breed in the still water. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (5/24)


Save Our Great Lakes joins S.S. Badger coal ash discharge debate, calls for no more dumping
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The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Ann Arbor is making a full court press against Lake Michigan Carferry's practice of discharging Badger coal ash into Lake Michigan, as it has for more than 50 years. Source: MLive.com (5/24)


COMMENTARY: Grand River on endangered list? Strange week for river news
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One of Ohio's premier steelhead trout streams, American Rivers thought poorly of the Grand River not because of today's pollution. Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (5/24)


Hot weather, dangerous Lake Michigan currents add up to beach worries
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Scorching temperatures, high winds, dangerous currents, and a tendency for people to overestimate their swimming abilities at the beginning of the season "could add up to trouble" for swimmers at Lake Michigan this weekend. Source: MLive.com (5/24)


Save the River names Lee Willbanks as its next executive director
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Save the River's board of directors has named D. Lee Willbanks, who was chief of staff to former state Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine, as its new executive director. Starting early June, he will succeed Jennifer J. Caddick as the head of the Clayton-based environmental advocacy grou Source: Watertown Daily Times (5/24)


LHS, DNR release 40,000 steelhead to the AuSable River
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and a group of volunteers from Lake Huron Sportfishing, Inc. worked to help ensure the future of angling on the AuSable River and Lake Huron on May 16. Source: Oscoda Press (5/23)


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