Report: Divide Great Lakes, Mississippi watersheds for invasive species protection
January 31, 2012 at 2:04 am in Grand Forks Herald
Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region today proposed spending up to $9.5 billion on a massive engineering project to separate the lakes from the Mississippi River watershed in the Chicago area, describing it as the only sure way to protect both aquatic systems from invasions by destructive species such as Asian carp. Continue Reading
I hope it works, but I doubt it would….Moving ships through would seem to still have an occasional sneak by. I don’t have any idea of the actual design, but water displacement and refills from one side to the other would seem to have to have sneak by glitches just by their very nature…..It’s too bad they can’t figure out a species specific biological time bomb they can release, but that’s probably not possible any time soon if ever…..
I wonder if they’ve been able to trace the origins of how Asian Carp ended up here? If so that SOB should be sentenced to life in some deep dark hole….Filled with dead Asian Carp brought in daily….
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