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AWWA ACE70625
- Managing the Great Lakes of North America: A Transboundary Cooperative Approach
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2009
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of the International Joint Commission (IJC), which oversees Canada-U.S. transboundary water coast to coast (and Alaska). The Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Study (LOSL) and the InternationalUpper Great Lakes Study (IUGLS) came from a bi-national Great Lakes (GL) Water Quality Agreement with the study mandate of examining physical processesand possible ongoingchanges in the St. ClairRiver and their impacts onlevels of Lake Michigan-Huron and, if applicable,evaluate and recommendpotential remedial options. A second objective was to review the regulation ofLake Superior outflowsand assess the need forchanges to address theevolving needs of andconditions affecting theinterests of the upperGreat Lakes. Includes figures.