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Tag Archives: EPA
February 14th 2013
A major milestone in Great Lakes restoration
The federal government showed the Great Lakes a whole lotta love on Valentine’s Day by announcing that Presque Isle Bay in Pennsylvania has been taken off of a list of Great Lakes toxic hotspots. The decision was made by the … Continue reading
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September 12th 2012
Sewer district tackling combined sewer overflows
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has reduced its raw sewage discharges into Lake Erie by 5o percent in recent years, but much work remains. The sewer district, which treats 92 billion gallons of wastewater annually from Cleveland and 61 … Continue reading
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August 8th 2012
Prolonged cleanup effort paying off for lake in Michigan
Decades of work to clean up White Lake, a Great Lakes Area of Concern in West Michigan, is paying huge dividends for the waterway and the local economy. Cleanup projects have removed nearly 100,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediments from … Continue reading
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May 22nd 2012
Cleanup removes tons of mercury from a Michigan lake
A $10 million project funded largely by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative removed 43,000 cubic yards of sediment containing mercury and petroleum compounds from the bottom of Muskegon Lake, in west Michigan. The project will help reduce fish contaminants and … Continue reading
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March 16th 2012
GLRI is beginning to pay off for the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is beginning to produce significant benefits, according to a federal official. Projects launched during the first two years of funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative have restored thousands of acres of wetlands, reduced beach … Continue reading
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