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[Chips]

Thirty-five years of pollution prevention and control has produced dramatic ecological recovery to the Detroit River and western Lake Erie, according to a major binational report.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/011108/loc_20080111001.shtml

[zard0z]

Thirty-five years of pollution prevention and control has produced dramatic ecological recovery to the Detroit River and western Lake Erie, according to a major binational report.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/011108/loc_20080111001.shtml

Surprisingly an invasive species has contributed to that clean up..."Zebra muscles"

[pdog]

There is a new report out that bait fish populations are way down because the zebra mussels eat all the plankton and other microbes the bait fish eat!

[Chips]

There is a new report out that bait fish populations are way down because the zebra mussels eat all the plankton and other microbes the bait fish eat!

Yes. this is a problem with the invasive species.
Unfortunately, this problem has increased due to the improved quality of our water.
Our cleaner waters provide a excellent environment for species illegally discharged from foreign ships. Governments must enact strict regulations against all discharges from all vessels on our great lakes.
This is our most valuable resource cannot be neglected!

[stevens_monroe]

still cant drink from them like the lakes of Minnsota.

[zard0z]

still cant drink from them like the lakes of Minnsota.

Sure you can...Go on, have a nice tall glass of Erie's finest...

 

[Mike Ingels]

As long as its filtered properly, I wouldn't think that Lake Erie would be too bad.  It depends on where in Lake Erie.

I also would never drink water out of a northern Minnesota lake without a filter.

Most of the pollution in Lake Erie comes from the sky anyway.  It's power plant and car emissions that settle in the bottom muck and get concentrated.  The same think is happening to all of us anyway as we breathe the pollution and eat contaminated fish and the like.

[lordfly]

Monroe gets its water from our wonderful, flammable lake...

[Chips]

Monroe gets its water from our wonderful, flammable lake...

Lake Erie has never burned or been flammable.
I believe your are confusing it with the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio.
It actually did catch fire.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642

[utility slug]

...or the Rouge River.

[Chips]

...or the Rouge River.

Oh, did the Rouge River become flammable?