The GLI requires Great Lakes states to make their water quality standards uniform and will limit the dumping of toxic chemicals into Lake Superior and inland waters. If you have not as yet written a letter but still want to demonstrate your support for an improved Minnesota GLI package that will improve protections for your health and the health of your family, please sign onto this letter. Once passed, these rules will make the state's water quality standards uniform with other Great Lakes states, thus providing a stronger ecosystem approach to protecting the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior is indisputably one of the world's most magnificent natural treasures.
The MPCA's current designation proposal is inadequate. Minnesota must prevent toxic pollution from air, land, sediment and other diffuse sources. Adoption of the GLI is an opportunity to improve management of and reduce toxic water pollution from diffuse sources, including air deposition, contaminated sediments, and runoff. Minnesota's GLI proposal includes no innovative approaches to deal with diffuse sources of pollution. Fish consumption advisories for certain Lake Superior fish demonstrate inadequate human health protection against toxic chemicals, such as mercury and PCBs, that bioaccumulate in fish tissue.