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Strategic plan targets invasive species
The Superior Daily Telegram (11/17)
Douglas County’s Land Conservation Committee is forwarding a plan to the county board that takes aim at invasive species.
Mich. Clean Marina Program: Public-private partners work together to improve water quality
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/9)
Partners from the public and private sector in Michigan are working together in a voluntary program to improve the quality of the Great Lakes.
Researchers seek funding for wind test site in Lake Michigan
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/7)
In a recent article in The Muskegon Chronicle, it was reported that researchers at Grand Valley State University’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) cited a lack of year-around data (on wind platform testing) needed by prospective development companies.
COMMENTARY: Senate needs to pass clean energy act to help Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press (10/26)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was absolutely correct with his recent proclamation about the current condition of the Great Lakes State: "The State of Michigan," Reid declared from the Senate Floor, with a copy Time Magazine in his hand, "is in trouble."
First Nation women 'walk the environmental talk'
WeNews (10/23)
Tomorrow's global day of climate activism aims for media and political attention. First Nation women have another way. Since 2003, they've walked the shoreline of a Great Lake or major river, meditating on the needs of an unborn generation.
City making big push for water school
The Business Journal (10/23)
The push is on to convince the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that the best location for its new School of Freshwater Sciences is near the university’s existing Great Lakes Water Institute on East Greenfield Avenue.
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7 | Lake Ontario and its tributaries
Oswego River: With over 1.2 million people living in the basin area, point and nonpoint source pollution have impaired the river's beneficial use.
Rochester Embayment: PCBs and pesticides have contributed to the embayment's degraded state.
Eighteen Mile Creek: The creek, which discharges into Olcott Harbor, suffers from contaminated sediments and degradation of benthos.
Hamilton Harbour: Canals and in-filling of 25% of the original bay have eliminated 75% of the original wetlands, protected inlets and shallow areas.
Metro Toronto: With more than 3 million people in the watershed, the greatest pollution source is urbanization, such as combined sewer overflows and waste treatment plants.
Port Hope: The contamination of the harbor with heavy metals and PCBs, is the result of past waste management practices in the processing of uranium and radium during the 1930s and 1940s.
Bay of Quinte: Agricultural and urban runoff, sediments, sewage treatment plants, industrial discharges, combined sewer overflows, illegal sewer connections, shoreline development and atmospheric deposition are the bay's primary pollution sources.
