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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"International Joint Commission"”.
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The aquatic macrophyte Vallisneria americana as a biomonitor of site quality in Great Lakes areas of concern.
… contaminated areas designated by the International Joint Commission) throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes of Ontario. Observations support the hypothesis that V. americana accumulates contaminants primarily from the sediments. Both the leaf-to-root fresh mass ratio, and total fresh …
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Wastewater Treatment Comes To Detroit: Law, Politics, Technology And Funding
… was one of the cities identified by the International Joint Commission as polluting the Great Lakes in contravention of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. The United States Public Health Service also reported on the pollution that entered the Detroit River from Detroit's sewers. …
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Evaluating recovery in aquatic production in the Bay of Quinte: A perspective based on changes in sedimentary diatom assemblages
The International Joint Commission (IJC) designated 43 sites along the Great Lakes as Areas of Concern (AOCs) in North America in 1987. These areas were extremely damaged due to anthropogenic activities and chosen for immediate recovery plans. One of the AOCs is the Bay of Quinte, an inlet of Lake …
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Rivers With Borders: Bi-National Water Management Model for the St. Mary-Milk Basins
… by the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty and the 1921 International Joint Commission Order, which allocate water based on reconstructed natural flow. Despite this framework, both countries routinely experience unmet entitlements due to hydrologic variability, operational constraints, and limitations in …
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Examining the social amplification of risk in Great Lakes areas of concern
… work to remove legacy industrial pollutants in International Joint Commission-designated Areas of Concern. While pollution remediation provides clear benefits to human and environmental health, the social impacts of the cleanup process in AOC communities is less clearly understood. This project …