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Lake News
Twin Ports shipping season to start soon
The Associated Press (3/18)
The Duluth Seaway Port Authority said the shipping season will commence just after midnight Saturday when the James R. Barker departs from Superior, Wis., with about 65,000 tons of coal for power plants in Michigan.
St. Clair Shores: $864,000 cleanup to remove PCB
Detroit Free Press (3/12)
The Environmental Protection Agency is to launch an $864,000 project to remove PCB contamination in the 10 Mile Drain and portions of the Lange and Revere Street canals, which drain into Lake St. Clair.
Battle lines drawn in lake turbine issue
The Windsor Star (3/12)
A Leamington-based company that is proposing to put 700 wind turbines in lakes Erie and St. Clair has hired a high-profile Michigan public relations strategist and former spokesman for the mayor of Detroit.
Coast Guard keeps tabs on ice bridge
The Times Herald (3/12)
The 30- to 35-square-mile ice bridge in southern Lake Huron has some officials worried about a repeat of 1984, when an ice bridge broke up and blocked the St. Clair River for 24 days, flooding the southern part of the county and costing the shipping industry $1.7 million.
Public comment on the St. Clair River Report
(3/11)
The International Joint Commission (IJC) is inviting public comment on the report of its International Upper Great Lakes Study Board entitled Impacts on Upper Great Lakes Water Levels: St. Clair River. The public comment period closes on April 9, 2010.
River looks 'pretty good,' but ice bridge a concern
The Times Herald (2/27)
Concerns about ice jams and flooding have waned on the St. Clair River after the U.S. Coast Guard spent the week breaking ice on the waterway. But a massive ice bridge just north of the Blue Water Bridge remains a concern.
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