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Drugs in Drinking Water: New Report Explores Emerging Great Lakes Threat, Solutions |
Recent testing of Lake Michigan water has found pharmaceutical byproducts in the water, raising concerns about the potential... |
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Lake levels remain below long-term average |
Water supplies into the Lake Superior and Lakes Huron-Michigan basins were below normal for the month of February, according... |
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State board's advice on wind farm skirts distance rules |
A governor-appointed advisory panel has issued its recommended state rules and regulations for offshore wind developments in... |
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City to decide on bayfront consultant |
City commissioners soon will decide whether to hire a consultant team to plan a bayfront overhaul. Commissioners are... |
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Fee hikes give boaters sinking feeling |
They are retirees — schoolteacher, electrician and funeral director — who drive old cars and don't travel... |
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Underwater robot hunts in Great Lakes |
One of the Environmental Protection Agency's newest members uses side-scan sonar to look at the watery depths of Lake... |
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Offshore wind farm developer scaling back plans |
Norwegian developers are in the process of cutting their proposed Lake Michigan Aegir Offshore Wind Farm in half and moving... |
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SFS construction site reconsidered again |
After two attempts at potential construction locations, the building site for the proposed UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater... |
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Walstrom Marine converting its State Street facility to yacht club |
A waterfront landmark business in Harbor Springs is about to evolve into a new entity. Walstrom Marine’s State Street... |
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Milwaukee Fish Company Warned By FDA |
The 97-year-old Empire Fish Company got its start selling fish from the Great Lakes to Milwaukee area restaurants.
Today it... |
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Conservation needed to prevent drain on water reserves |
Is your water too cheap? Maybe if it were more expensive, you'd do more to conserve. That's one suggestion in a new... |
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Lake Zurich hopes to tap Lake Michigan |
Officials from Lake Zurich and 10 other communities met with Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials recently in... |
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Three ships wrecked off St. Francis coast |
Three 19th-century Great Lakes sailing ships, the Boston, the Sebastopol, and the Alleghany, had two things in common. All... |
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Boaters to see more access to Fox River due to restorations, projects |
Starting in May, the Fox River near the Appleton Yacht Club will no longer just be a cul de sac for boaters.The completion... |
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Waukesha unveils its request for water |
Calling the city's search for a radium-free water supply "a critical public health issue," Mayor Larry Nelson... |
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Danger posed by carp is questioned |
Do Asian carp really spell doom for the Great Lakes?
Many experts say the future looks grim, since the fish are voracious... |
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Port of Milwaukee plans improvements for 2010 |
While many of the ports in the Great Lakes saw their traffic volumes fall between 15 to 30 percent last year during the... |
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Public forum on wind farm still leaves questions |
Lots of questions, but not all of the answers were presented as supporters and opponents filled the Shelby High School... |
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Opposition growing to Norwegian company's proposed offshore wind farm |
Paul Slotsema’s travels with the United States Merchant Marine Academy have taken him around the world, from the... |
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Plans for North Lake boat ramp run aground |
Public boating access to North Lake in Waukesha County likely will not be accomplished this year, despite the state... |
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10 Lake County suburbs look to tap Lake Michigan water |
In what could be the state's largest collective gulp of Lake Michigan water in nearly two decades, 10 suburbs are... |
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Lake Michigan wind farm not likely in Chicago |
Around the breezy Great Lakes, developers and states in search of green jobs are pushing to build wind farms in coastal... |
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United States Navy selects Chicago to host 2010 Navy Week Celebration |
America’s Navy will come home to Chicago August 7-15.
Chicago has been chosen as a host city for a Navy Week... |
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Carp Mania |
It sounds like one of those old Hollywood thrillers -- "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" or "Invasion of the Body... |
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New slots for boaters |
A new marina will be built at Gateway Harbor, between Navy Pier and the Chicago River’s outlet to Lake Michigan. The... |
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Developers of proposed $3 billion Lake Michigan wind farm say project would hurt view, help economy |
The first off-shore utility-scale wind farm proposed for this side of Lake Michigan was presented Tuesday night.
The massive... |
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Lake Michigan pollution: Highland Park project aims to curb sewage flow |
A plan is under way in Highland Park to help keep at least a small amount of raw sewage out of Lake Michigan -- the source... |
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Testing the water for offshore wind project |
A Norwegian company that developed plans for a wind energy farm in the ocean off Norway’s shore sent a representative... |
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Park District plans day camp, boat slip fee hikes |
Ned Dikmen, chairman of the Great Lakes Boating Federation, is holding his nose at boat slip fee increases ranging from 2.... |
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Northerly, naturally |
Gia Biagi, the director of planning and development at the Chicago Park District, called Northerly Island’s current... |
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Plans take new look at Northerly Island |
A month after Mayor Daley's Olympic team washed out in the race for the 2016 Games, the tide has shifted as planners... |
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City's Water Problems Test Great Lakes Agreement |
After studying its water woes for years, this former spa city of 68,000 has decided its best bet is to tap into Lake... |
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Push for Lake Michigan water in Lake County nears |
Details of a plan to extend Lake Michigan water to eight communities will hit the road next week.
Village... |
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Port of Green Bay 'doing fine' after slow start to season |
Aside from the first two months of the shipping season, when nothing was moving because of the economic downturn, the port... |
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Diver finds 'time capsule' |
Steve Libert doesn't hunt treasure, but that's just what he may have discovered in upper Lake Michigan.
Libert,... |
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Wis. plans open house at Lake Michigan facility |
Wisconsin fishing officials are planning an open house to promote Great Lakes fishing. The Department of Natural Resources... |
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Waukesha Estimates Cost of Lake Michigan Water Plan at $77 Million |
Switching the city's water supply to Lake Michigan rather than ground water wells would cost $56 million in initial... |
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After first deal collapsed, advocates reach cheaper agreement to buy, preserve Saugatuck dune land |
At a price $5 million less than 10 months ago, the deal was ripe for snatching a huge chunk of Lake Michigan dunes land... |
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Fact Finder: Hatchery Runs Dry, Fewer Fish |
When it comes to explaining the lure of raising the trophy fish of tomorrow at his privately owned hatchery,... |
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Oak Creek Power Plant artificial reef |
For the past two summers, Great Lakes WATER Institute scientist John Janssen has been keeping an eye out for yellow perch... |
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to expand |
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is in line to receive $1 million to use for land acquisition.
The money is included... |
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Experts fear Asian carp could ride floodwaters into Lake Michigan's ecosystem |
This is how desperate the fight to keep Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan has become: Biologists are talking about... |
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More than 200 kiteboarders head to the King of the Great Lakes Kiteboarding Competition |
Welcome to the 9th annual King of the Great Lakes Kiteboarding Competition. It is hard to imagine we had 4 guys show up in... |
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Trash total amazes beach cleanup crew |
Hammond resident Mady Busick's garbage bag contained a strange variety of objects -- cigarette butts, bottle caps, tampons... |
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State tries to walk fine line on alewives |
Managing invasive alewives in the Great Lakes is like walking a tightrope: Too many stymie native lake trout reproduction,... |
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Port to pitch coal dock site to UWM |
City, university to discuss freshwater research center that local officials say could be combined with headquarters for... |
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Lake Michigan levels are up and continuing to rise |
The steady rise of Lake Michigan water levels continued this summer as the big lake was nearly a foot higher at the end of... |
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Group brings restoration to South Fox Lighthouse |
On the tip of this windswept Lake Michigan island, amid tangled overgrowth and mountains of cobble pushed ashore by... |
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Shipwreck hunting - Clear water, well-preserved wrecks make underwater tourism popular in Traverse City |
There’s a saying in northwest Michigan’s dune country. The sand gives, and the sand takes away.
Over the years, the golden... |
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Port in the running for national shipwreck center |
Port Washington officials are preparing to pitch the city as the ideal spot to become headquarters for a Lake Michigan... |
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