Carp Barrier Aid Rejected; but St. Lawrence Seaway Study On Course for Funds
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 10, 2005
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The ribbon will soon be cut on a brand-new, $9 million electric barrier built to keep the Asian carp from swimming up the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and infesting Lake Michigan, but Great Lakes lawmakers this week failed to persuade their fellow members in Congress to pay to turn it on.
A House-Senate conference committee earlier this week opted not to authorize and fund the estimated $250,000 it will cost to keep the juice flowing through the fish-zapping barrier, which was built largely with Army Corps dollars. It did, however, agree to continue to fund a controversial Army Corps study to improve the aged St. Lawrence Seaway, another pathway for foreign species to invade the Great Lakes.See the full content of this document
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Carp Barrier Aid Rejected; but St. Lawrence Seaway Study On Course for Funds
The result of the carp barrier decision is that the state of Illinois will be forced to cover its operating and maintenance expenses, something Illinois officials have said they may have a difficult time doing.
Great Lakes advocates were, predictably, outraged that the federal government is...See the full content of this document
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