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Data Watch: The Great Lakes’ top priorities

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Nationwide, there are 1,320 final sites on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priority List of waste sites that have released or can release hazardous contaminants. They are either awaiting or undergoing cleanup. Sites can be deleted from the list when “no further response is required to protect human health or the environment,” according to the EPA. Each site is scored through the Hazard Ranking System on a scale from 0-100. The higher the score, the greater threat they represent.

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Jeopardy in July: Lake Michigan’s native fish

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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. polls & surveys
The answer to the previous question: Lake Huron’s pollution is the cause of widespread reproductive failure in fish-eating birds.

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Jeopardy in July: Pollution in Lake Huron

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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. survey software
The answer to the previous question: The average depth of Lake Huron is 170 feet.

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Jeopardy in July: Lake Huron’s depth

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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. survey tools
The answer to the previous question: Monitoring of Lake Huron bird eggs revealed high concentrations of brominated diphenyl ethers (BDEs) in herring gulls.

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Jeopardy in July: Bird eggs in Lake Huron

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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. survey tools
The answer to the previous question: The water of Lake Superior is fed by over 200 rivers.

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Jeopardy in July: The waters of Lake Superior…

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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. web survey
The answer to the previous question: Lake Superior water levels have been governed by the International Board of Control, established in 1914 by the International Joint Commission.

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Jeopardy in July: Lake Superior water levels

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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. online polls
The answer to the previous question: Surface water temperatures in Lake Superior have risen by 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1979 – much more than average air temperatures in this region.

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Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers

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To celebrate over four years of Echo’s (and our readers’) continued quest for knowledge and many years of all of our collective devotion to these lakes, we are very pleased to announce a very special month-long feature coming up here at Echo: Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers! Throughout each week in July, we will post trivia questions dedicated to a specific lake to see how well you know our Great Lakes.  Each question that follows will also contain the answer to the previous question and a breakdown of the polls to show how well you, the readers, did and explain the answers. The schedule is as follows:

Week One: Lake Superior
Week Two: Lake Huron
Week Three: Lake Michigan
Week Four: Lake Erie
Week Five:  Lake Ontario

We hope you enjoy playing – and be sure to check back all throughout July so you don’t miss your chance to show us how much you know!

Energy

Data shows daily withdrawals from Great Lakes basin

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More than 44 billion gallons of water were extracted daily from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin in 2011, according to a new report. Of the region’s states and provinces, Ontario withdrew the most water, at about 37 percent and Pennsylvania took the least at .07 percent. Uses for the water include irrigation, public drinking and industrial needs. That amount does not include water used for hydroelectric energy.