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Illinois one step closer toward project to keep carp from Great Lakes

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The fight to keep invasive carp under control and out of the Great Lakes may now be getting easier. Earlier this month, the state of Illinois announced it had acquired land needed to move along the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, a $1.15 billion barricade aimed at keeping the aquatic menace from entering the channel that connects the Mississippi River Basin with the Great Lakes.

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Illinois and Army Corps of Engineers at impasse on carp project

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To prevent the movement of invasive carp into the Great Lakes, the states of Illinois and Michigan and the Army Corps of Engineers need to sign an agreement – but for months they have been locked in a stalemate over what comes next.
Documents show that Illinois wants a better deal that leaves the door open for more federal funding, as well as a revamped incremental construction process.

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