Senators Seek Great Lakes Hearing; They Want U.S. Inquiry Into Low Water Levels

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Chicago - More than 2 years after a Canadian group's study claimed plummeting levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron are caused by humans, U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and four other senators are calling for a special hearing into why the upper Great Lakes' volumes are shrinking.

"We urge the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to hold a hearing to investigate the near-historic low lake levels and actions to address the likely contributors," the group of senators wrote in a letter last week to the committee chairman, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).

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Senators Seek Great Lakes Hearing; They Want U.S. Inquiry Into Low Water Levels

Leaders of the Canadian property-owners group, which scratched together $200,000 for the 2005 lake level study that blames the Michigan and Huron problem on erosion in the St. Clair River, were thrilled that the issue has finally gotten the senators' attention. But they are also perplexed ...

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