Download or read book Cleaning Up Great Lakes Areas of Concern written by Cate Leger and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making RAPs Happen written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The document is intended to serve primarily as an inventory of ideas for RAPs (Remedial Action Plan). The RAPs has been developped for 43 of the Great Lakes most polluted areas. The study is divided into four chapters: 1) Remedial Action Plans, What Makes Them Works describes the RAP process, its institutional and legal background, and the strengths and weaknesses of RAPs efforts to date; 2) Commabatting Combined-Sewer Overflows and Urban Non-Point Source Pollution outline techniques recommended to prevent and clean up pollution from combined-sewer overflows, urban runoff, airborne toxics, degraded aquatic habitats, and contaminated landfills, aquifers and sediments; 3) Financial Strategies for Great Lakes Areas of Concern summarize potential sources of funding for the AOCs' cleanup, which may cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the most polluted rivers and bays; 4) Administrative Strategies for RAPs describe how institutions, both existing and new, can supervise and coordinate complex Remedial Action Plans.

Download or read book Water Pollution written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cleaning Up Our Great Lakes written by International Joint Commission and published by The Commission. This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EPA Needs a Cohesive Plan to Clean Up the Great Lakes Areas of Concern written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clean Lakes Clean Jobs written by John Peck and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cleaning Up the Great Lakes written by Terence Kehoe and published by DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental and policy history intersect in this unique case study of national water pollution control policy during the seminal decades of environmental activism. Kehoe uses events in the Great Lakes region to investigate broader changes in American public policy during the era of public interest that extended from the late 1960s through the early 1970s.

Download or read book State of the Great Lakes written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes Cleanup Fund written by Canada. Environmental Protection Directorate. Ontario Region and published by Environment Canada, Environmental Protection Branch, Ontario Region. This book was released on 1993 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes Water Quality Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cleaning Up Contaminated Sediment written by Jerry Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes Water Quality and Restoration Efforts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes EPA Needs to Define Organizational Responsibilities Better for Effective Oversight and Cleanup of Contaminated Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes as a source for drinking water, recreation, and economic livelihood. Over time industrial, agricultural, and residential development on lands adjacent to the lakes have seriously degraded the lakes' water quality, posing threats to human health and the environment, and forcing restrictions on activities, such as swimming and fish consumption. In an effort to better protect the Great Lakes, and to address common water quality problems, the governments of the United States and Canada entered into the bilateral Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in 1972. In 1978 the parties reached a new agreement, which, as amended in 1983 and 1987, expanded the scope of the activities by prescribing prevention and cleanup measures intended to immprove the lakes' conditions. Specifically, the 1987 amendment committed the two countries to cooperate with state and provincial governments to ensure, among other things, the development and implementation of remedial action plans (RAPs) for designated areas of concern (areas) located in the Great Lakes Basin areas contaminated for example with toxic substances known to cause deformities in fish or mammals. The countries have agreed to use RAPs for managing the cleanup process and restoring contaminated areas to their beneficial use, such as swimming or fishing. The countries have identified 43 contaminated areas: 26 located entirely within the United States, 12 in Canada, and 5 shared by both. The agreement obligates the International Joint Commission (IJC)-an international body charged with assisting the implementation of the agreement-to review the RAPs and provide comments on them.

Download or read book Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Budgetary Issues Affecting the Great Lakes Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Community and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Pollution Problems of the Great Lakes Area written by United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Great Lakes Region and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes Champions written by John H. Hartig and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes—containing one-fifth of the standing freshwater on earth, covering some 94,250 square miles with a combined 10,210 miles of shoreline—have suffered greatly from human use and abuse since the advent of the commercial fur trade in the late 1600s. Logging destroys or degrades habitats, urbanization and industrialization pour human and industrial wastes into the water, fertilizers flowing off farm fields feed algae that suffocate other creatures, and ships bring in exotic species that decimate the lakes’ biodiversity. In 1985 when the International Joint Commission identified more than forty pollution hotspots around the lakes, few people had faith the Areas of Concern would be cleaned up in their lifetime. Indeed, aquatic ecosystem restoration is extremely difficult: only nine of these hotspots have been removed from the infamous list. But progress is being made, and at the helm are local champions, people with a profound love of the region who lead by example and build broad, diverse coalitions in order to realize a common vision. The stories of fourteen of these champions are told here to inspire necessary action to care for the place they call home, so it may be a home to many living creatures for ages yet to come.