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Pressure By Great Lakes' Lawmakers Makes Corps Reverse Barrier Funding Decision
March 08, 2004 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will adjust its budget and build the electric barrier that Great Lakes lawmakers sought to protect the waterways from invasive species, Sen. Mike DeWine said Friday. Read the following articles to get the details.
"The barrier for the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal should be built as soon as possible to keep species such as the Asian carp, which can destroy a system's food supply, out of Lake Michigan."
"It's rare to see the entire delegation so strongly united on a project," said U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, an Illinois Republican who represents the area where the new barrier will be built.
"At a congressional hearing the day before, U.S. Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers of Michigan used tougher words for John Paul Woodley Jr., assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for civil works. He told the general his "head would be on a platter" in the Great Lakes community if the carp make their way into the lakes."
"Sen. Mike DeWine, the Ohio Republican, co-chairman of the Senate's Great Lakes task force, was the co-author of a letter taking the corps to task for not proceeding with the barrier even after Congress gave the agency $4.4 million for the project in its 2004 budget."
"After a flurry of meetings with and telephone calls and letters from angry Great Lakes lawmakers, the corps' top brass assured them Friday there will be enough money to build the fish fence this summer."
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