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Grant #647
Developing a Conservation "Tool Kit" for the Great Lakes Region
Great Lakes Commission

This directory allows users to browse through nearly 150 water conservation-related links. These resources contain valuable information and data related to conservation activities on a local, regional and global basis.

http://www.glc.org/wateruse/conservation/

Grant #651
Netting Benefits for the Great Lakes Ecosystem
Policy Solutions Ltd.

This project explored the implications of Annex 2001 on future water withdrawals from the Great Lakes watershed by developing and examining four in-basin scenarios. Conditions were identified under which new uses of Great Lakes water are consistent with the Annex, specific to Directive #3, the improvement standard. The following link contains the team's findings.

(651 Report, 4.36MB)

Grant #654
Operationalizing the Improvement Standard for Water Withdrawals for Affected Communities
Tetra Tech EM Inc.

This project's goal was to create a model improvement scale including tools to analyze a request, and to determine potential project outcomes, under Annex 2001. Findings concluded that in using a formula that gave a comparative analysis, the relative impacts and improvements could be measured against one another. The following link contains the team's findings.

(654 Report, 8.35MB)

Grant #655
Ecologically Sustainable Water Management: Training Workshop for the Great Lakes
The Nature Conservancy Great Lakes Initiative

This project set out to ensure that ecological requirements are to be incorporated into Great Lakes water management decisions by implementing an Ecologically Sustainable Water Management (ESWM) framework. A workshop was held in Chicago in January, 2003, and the link below will provide the support materials from this workshop including a fact sheet and supporting publications.

(655 Workshop, 4.2MB)

Grant #660
Creating Ecological Currencies for Quantifying Resource Improvements
Enterprising Environmental Solutions, Inc.

EESI completed development of an ecological currency for valuing environmental improvements to the waters and water dependent natural resources of the Great Lakes Basin. The project produced technical models that relate water uses to ground and surface water movements and assess ecological consequences of various supply options. The team's findings are available below.

(660 Report, 5.34MB)

Grant #661
Making a Decision on Improvement: A Case Study Demonstration Involving Waukesha Water Supply
CH2M HILL

The project set out to analyze a case study of how an out-of-basin community can use Great Lakes water to address its water needs and meet the resource improvement requirements under Annex 2001. One approach toward satisfying the Annex 2001 principle of resource improvement is reported in the following link.

(661 Report, 1.56MB)

Grant #663
Developing a Model Framework for Assessing Impacts of Water Withdrawals
Limno-Tech, Inc.

Limno-Tech, Inc. has developed a prototype modeling tool to assess the ecological impacts of withdrawals and diversions for a Great Lakes watershed. It provides practical and scientific support to the governors' and premiers' commitments under Annex 2001. The following link will take you to the project's website.

http://www.glc.org/wateruse/tools/limno

Grant #669
Groundwater and the Great Lakes: A Coordinated Binational Basin-Wide Assessment in Support of Annex 2001 Decision Making
U.S. Geological Survey

U.S.G.S. has developed a website that contains a summary of the concepts that govern ground-water flow and ground-water/surface-water interactions, and also contains details of a case study of southeast Wisconsin that attempts to describe the ground-water flow system and quantify the relation between ground water and Lake Michigan.

http://wi.water.usgs.gov/glpf/

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