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Break up Great Lakes, Mississippi, advocates say Rules & regulations
The Alliance for the Great Lakes, an environmental advocacy group, is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. EPA to further examine the possibility of separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River watersheds to stop the spread of invasive species.
The group’s 106-page study, “Preliminary Feasibility of Ecological Separation of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes,” outlines six options for separating the watersheds and halting the transfer of species between them.
“The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are at risk because of a connection that’s nothing natural,” says Joel Brammeier, the group’s vice president for policy. “Fifteen miles of water and an experimental electric barrier are all that’s standing between the Great Lakes and Asian carp.”
Asian carp in the Mississippi River have been a known threat to the Great Lakes since 2003, when Chicago hosted the Chicago Aquatic Invasive Species Summit and city officials asked federal and state agencies to complete the electrical barrier.
A 2003 analysis suggested that separation of the systems could reasonably be achieved within 10 years. Yet five years on, progress has slowed to a halt.
