Water Rises in Great Lakes After Near Record Low
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Great Lakes water levels have rebounded from near record lows thanks to months of heavy rain, providing a boon to boat owners, swimmers and fish, scientists said on Friday.
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Scientists hope to learn more about what the Great Lakes' shorelines looked like about 10,000 years ago. They explored a limestone land bridge that went from Alpena to Goderich, Ontario &#151; a distance of about 125 miles &#151; and an underwater forest of petrified trees in Lake Huron.
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Impact of reduced ice cover on Great Lakes is felt by numerous industries and coastal landowners.
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Thanks to a rainy holiday season, the Atlanta area stayed just above its historical low-water mark for annual rainfall, the National Weather Service reported.
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Back Bay, one day, may be a little fresher body of water, thanks to the efforts of Susan Wenzel and many volunteers,  On a recent Saturday, 800 or so flowers, shrubs and trees were planted in a 1,200-foot-long buffer along a lake in South Shore Estates in the Red Mill area.
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A low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico began to strengthen Thursday as the storm drifted slowly to the north and west.
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By TONY SPILDE  By TONY SPILDE  With Lake Sakakawea just a tenth of a foot from dropping to a red- flag low, Sen. Byron Dorgan is concerned that some towns downstream along the Missouri River could run out of water this summer.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Mar. 3--As the water level rose in Hicks Lake during torrential rains this winter, so did nearby homeowners' fears of flooding.
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TORONTO (CP) - A new report says the health of the Great Lakes is mixed, and while the ecosystem is improving in some ways, there are many areas of troubling concern.  The report by Environment Canada and the U.S.
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Water levels in areas worst-hit by flooding are falling but may take three days to clear, firefighters say.
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A Las Vegas shopping center is trucking in water from as far away as Canada to fill its fountains. Reno will have to dip into its drought reserve supply for the first time in a decade. The most popular public ramp on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe is closed because there's not enough water to float a boat.
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By DAN EGAN  There is a torrent of opposition across the region to the City of New Berlin's request to pump Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes watershed, but that doesn't mean Wisconsin will necessarily heed it.
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By MICHAEL OLIVEIRA  TORONTO (CP) - A bill to protect Great Lakes water from being sold or shipped across the continent passed its final hurdle in the Ontario legislature Thursday, as all three parties voted unanimously to pass it into law.
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A sudden influx of freshwater from North America's ancient Lake Agassiz to the North Atlantic 8,200 years ago triggered a precipitous cooling of the region, scientists believe. Now they are trying to predict if and when a similar scenario might happen again.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Problems on the Great Lakes are approaching the tipping point and environmentalists need to intensify their push for Congress to fund restoration efforts on the lakes.
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The water level in Lake Okeechobee, a reservoir for millions in parched south Florida, dropped to a record low Thursday, the local water district said.  The lake water level was 8.94 feet Thursday, breaking a record low of 8.97 feet set in a 2001 drought.
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By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ  Waukesha - After years of inaction, area business leaders have embraced tapping Lake Michigan as a new water source and warned that a pending international agreement to regulate the Great Lakes could easily and unfairly prevent that from happening.