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Proposal to Protect Great Lakes

Michael Lipkin | January 31, 2012, 9:15 am

A new report proposes a multi-billion dollar engineering change to Chicago's waterways to cut off an Asian Carp invasion. Ash-har Quraishi has the details.

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File Attachments
Great Lakes Commission Report.pdf
Related Links
Associated Press article on the barrier proposals
Detroit Free Press article on the proposals’ costs
More on the Great Lakes Commission
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