Great Lakes
Article:
Great Lakes water accord input sought
Toledo Blade
Published August 17, 2005
Northwest Ohio residents will have two chances to offer
input today on the draft agreements that would prevent
diversions of water out of the Great Lakes.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Council
of Great Lakes Governors are hosting the public meetings,
which are among a series of meetings across the region
to get feedback on the draft agreements.
The agreements are thought to be a step forward in enforceable
water resource laws that would protect the Great Lakes
by keeping the lakes' water within the lakes.
Among the issues to be discussed at the meetings are
what is in the agreements and how it impacts Ohio, what
citizens support in the agreements, and what citizens
oppose in the agreements.
The meetings will be held in Huron, Ohio, from 1 to 3
p.m. at Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve
Visitors Center, 2514 Cleveland Rd., and in Oregon from
7 to 9 p.m. at the Maumee Bay State Park's Quilter Lodge,
1750 State Park Rd. 2, off North Curtice Road.
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