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  • City's Health Endangered by Lake Pollution
    City's Health Endangered by Lake Pollution Newspaper
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Oct 1913, p. 2     Evanston Health Commissioner, Dr. Victor S. Balderston, charged that sanitary district officials are polluting the water of Lake Michigan by dumping refuse near the intake pipe. Dr. Balderston feels
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Oct 1913, p. 2   Evanston Health Commissioner, Dr. Victor S. Balderston, charged that sanitary district officials …
  • Keep the water clean, letter Thomas Choi, Wilmette
    Keep the water clean, letter Thomas Choi, Wilmette NewspaperText
    Wilmette Life, 12 Jun 2008, p. 20     Full article available at Wilmette Public Library.
    Wilmette Life, 12 Jun 2008, p. 20   Full article available at Wilmette Public Library.
  • Pollution of Water in Great Lakes Shown
    Pollution of Water in Great Lakes Shown Newspaper
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Jan 1914, p. 1     Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin of the United States Public Health Service says all cities should treat and purify their water. The report of an international joint commission details the sources of danger t
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Jan 1914, p. 1   Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin of the United States Public Health Service says …
  • Legislators take aim at BP lake dumping
    Legislators take aim at BP lake dumping Newspaper
    John Roszkowski, Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Aug 2007, p. 9     Area residents and lawmakers are angered over British Petroleum's plans to increase discharges of ammonia and industrial waste into Lake Michigan as part of an expansion and modernization of the comp
    John Roszkowski, Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Aug 2007, p. 9   Area residents and lawmakers are angered over British Petroleum's plans to increase …
  • Opposition grows over BP plan
    Opposition grows over BP plan Newspaper
    Liza Roche, Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Aug 2007, 6, 12     Jim Griffith of Wilmette co-founded the Committee on Lake Michigan Pollution about 40 years ago. The group became the Lake Michigan Federation, and is now the Alliance of the Great Lakes. Comments on
    Liza Roche, Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Aug 2007, 6, 12   Jim Griffith of Wilmette co-founded the Committee on Lake Michigan Pollution about …
  • Erratic E. coli counts defy easy answers
    Erratic E. coli counts defy easy answers NewspaperImageText
    Karen Berkowitz, Wilmette Life, 20 Aug 2009, p. 7     Water quality at Wilmette beaches is tested twice a day, but the results are not known until the following day possibly exposing swimmers to high levels of e. coli bacteria. The state approved a gran
    Karen Berkowitz, Wilmette Life, 20 Aug 2009, p. 7   Water quality at Wilmette beaches is tested twice a day, but the …
  • Keeping beaches clean has to be high priority [editorial]
    Keeping beaches clean has to be high priority [editorial] NewspaperText
    Wilmette Life, 20 Aug 2009, p. 16     Full article available at Wilmette Public Library.
    Wilmette Life, 20 Aug 2009, p. 16   Full article available at Wilmette Public Library.
  • North Shore Alarmed by Pollution
    North Shore Alarmed by Pollution Newspaper
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1913, p. 1     ...
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1913, p. 1   ...
  • Lake Pollution is Cause of Disease
    Lake Pollution is Cause of Disease Newspaper
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Jan 1915, p. 1     Surgeon General Rupert Blue makes report on condition of water.
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Jan 1915, p. 1   Surgeon General Rupert Blue makes report on condition of water.
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