Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: algae, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fish, Madison Metropolitan Sewage District, Municipal Environmental Group Wastewater Division, Natural Resources Board, phosphorus, Sierra Club, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin residents may soon pay more to flush the toilet but enjoy cleaner lakes, rivers and streams under a plan to more strictly regulate phosphorus pollution in state waterways. The state Natural Resources Board is set Tuesday to approve public hearings on tougher limits on [...]
Published: January 27, 2010
Tags: fish, Great Lakes, VHS, virus
Deadly VHS fish virus found in Lake Superior TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A fatal fish virus has been detected in Lake Superior for the first time, meaning it has spread to all the Great Lakes, researchers said Wednesday. Cornell University scientists said they recently detected viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, while testing fish in [...]
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials say the despised Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent it from invading the Great Lakes and jeopardizing their $7 billion sport fishery. Officials with the Army Corps of Engineer say Friday that DNA of the giant carp [...]
LAKE DELTON, Wis. (AP) — State fishing experts say restocking on Lake Delton is working well so far. Department of Natural Resources workers boom-shocked the lake in September. They sent an electric current through the lake that momentarily stunned the fish, causing them to float to the surface so workers could measure them. Scot Stewart, [...]
Washington (ap) — Nearly half of lakes and reservoirs nationwide contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, according to a federal study released Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency found mercury — a pollutant primarily released from coal-fired power plants — and polychlorinated biphenyls in all fish samples it collected from 500 [...]
Published: November 10, 2009
Tags: cement plants, coal-fired power plants, Environmental Protection Agency, fish, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, U.S. Geological Survey
By Dina Cappiello AP Writer Washington (AP) — Nearly half of lakes and reservoirs nationwide contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, according to a federal study released Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency found mercury — a pollutant primarily released from coal-fired power plants — and polychlorinated biphenyls in all fish [...]
Published: July 1, 2009
Tags: conservationism, dam, fish
Glenn Adams AP Writer Augusta, ME (AP) — A backhoe took a bite out of the Edwards Dam 10 years ago, releasing the waters of the Kennebec River that had been held back for more than a century and a half. Months after that first torrent gushed through from upstream, the entire dam was gone [...]