GLIN Daily News RSS Feed http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2009-07-03T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.iiseagrant.org/newsroom/helm/helm09_spr_web.pdf The spring 2009 issue of Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant's newsletter, The HELM, is now available online. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.examiner.com/x-15681-Milwaukee-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2009m7d1-New-public-hearings-on-lake-levels-added Those leading a controversial study on low water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron have given in to pressure to add two public hearings in Wisconsin. The study board had scheduled 14 public hearings with only one held along the western shore of Lake Michigan or in the Upper Peninsula. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5604AM20090701 New York is gauging interest in building a wind farm 13 miles off the New York city coast that could end up being the largest such project in the United States. New York's state power authority said it had also selected five firms to study the possibility of building an offshore wind farm on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in western New York. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/ohio_epa_northeast_ohio_sewer.html An Ohio Environmental Protection Agency investigator trying to find out who killed more than 500 gulls last month by dumping hundreds of gallons of oil into the Cuyahoga River is focusing on a nine-mile-long storm sewer network that flows from Shaker Heights to Cleveland and the river. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.freep.com/article/20090701/BLOG2501/90701055/A+new+Soo+lock++maybe All the dignitaries at Tuesday's groundbreaking for a new Soo lock expressed high hopes that this really did mark the start of continuous construction that would see the project finished in the next seven to ten years. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1637650 A west beach property owner is offering to sell a strip of lakefront land to the Town of Cobourg, Ont., so the boardwalk can be completed from the marina area westward. If purchased, the area the public could use along Lake Ontario would be extended. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/07/02/water-trail-ready-for-paddlers/ This week's official opening of the 27-mile Vermilion-Lorain Water Trail -- which stretches from the Vermilion River Reservation along the shoreline of Lake Erie to Lorain and up the Black River to Elyria -- should thrill Ohio's growing number of canoeists and kayakers. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20090702/SHE0101/907020421/1062/SHE01/Dirty-birds--Gulls-making-a-big-mess-at-South-Pier South Pier District business owners in Sheboygan, Wis., say they have a mess on their hands, as hordes of gulls have moved into the area and quickly turned one of the city's most popular summer destinations along Lake Michigan into one big avian commode. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.freep.com/article/20090702/NEWS05/907020422/Teams+targeting+poison+in+the+River+Raisin Michigan has more PCB-contaminated hot spots than any other Great Lakes state. And the River Raisin's short stretch is one of the worst. Using money Congress authorized specifically to clean up the Great Lakes, a major federal cleanup is scheduled to start within a year. text/html 2009-07-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/124285/group/Sports/ Zebra mussels have been found in Pike Lake outside Duluth, the first confirmed outbreak in a Northeastern Minnesota waterway outside Lake Superior.