As invasive species, Asian Carp were always going get some fiscal attention from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding, and now EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has announced that $13 million will go directly to trying to stop the carp from entering via the Des Plaines River and for continued DNA testing in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal.
Sen. Carl Levin and the Great Lakes Task Force have been working feverishly over the past couple weeks to ensure that federal agencies had enough money to try and stop the Asian Carp. They expect to circulate a letter late this week calling for the closure of the O’Brian locks and a permanent separation of the Mississippi River Basin from the Great Lakes Basin.
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