Residents Skeptical of Lake Report
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By PATRICK COURREGES  Residents around Lake Peigneur are not satisfied by a report stating the lake water is safe.  In a news release this week, the state Department of Environmental Quality said tests show the lake's water appears uncontaminated.
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By Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.  Sep. 7--City officials said Wednesday that residents might notice their  water has taken on a yellow or brown hue.
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By Rick Armon, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 7--SILVER LAKE -- Faced with a dwindling water fund that will soon run out of money, village officials will begin debating today whether to raise water rates by as much as 17.2 percent.  "We need to address rates soon.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--GARRISON, Minn. -- Big Pine Lake looked unfriendly, unknown, unforgiving last weekend as I left the dock to fish for bass.   Strange.
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By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 11--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 The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  May 28--The problems afflicting water levels in Toledo Bend Lake were complicated.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 1--A Rockford Bay neighborhood group wants Idaho to stop issuing new water withdrawals from Lake Coeur d'Alene until a study is done to see how Kootenai County's rapid growth is affecting the picturesque icon.
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TO THE EDITOR:           Thank you for your coverage of the residents' discontent over the development of a 159-home community on the Hawk Valley Golf Course property owned by Jim Fricke.           Of particular concern to us is the future adequacy of the water supply.
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The debate about perchlorate contamination in drinking water is getting more heated as environmentalists object to a report claiming the widespread toxin is far less dangerous than was thought.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 17--People are worried Lake Michigan water levels are lower than normal, but most have no grasp of what "normal" is for the world's fifth largest freshwater lake.
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That&#39;s what those who oppose gun control legislation say, and I&#39;m beginning to think we ought to take them seriously. Six people from the Rice Lake area are dead and two are wounded, and police believe it&#39;s because a St.
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By JUSTIN ELLIS Staff Writer  Bridgton is considering hiring a harbormaster because of concerns about increased boat traffic and safety on the lakes in town.
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Lake levels reached record lows last year, and the region worries that fast-growing states and communities will try to grab its water.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  The water was rising in Battery Park, and no one was sure why.
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By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN, STAFF WRITER  FRANKLIN LAKES  A series of setbacks with the Haledon Reservoir purchase is threatening to push the already distant opening of the public space even further into the future, according to borough officials.
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Mar. 9--Bonney Lake's proposed boat launch fees at Allan York Park on Lake Tapps might have hit a snag.