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Keep the Great Lakes Safe!

Target: U.S. Senate
Sponsored by: Alliance for the Great Lakes

Each year, more than 24 billion gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater are dumped into the Great Lakes along with massive amounts of polluted runoff. Last summer alone, 84 beaches were unfit for swimming for at least 14 days because of dirty water!

Everyone and everything needs clean, fresh water to live and thrive. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, supplying drinking water to more than 40 million people -- many of whom depend on the lakes for work and recreation. Americans are fortunate to share the continent with the Great Lakes, yet pollution threatens the health of the lakes.

Keep the Great Lakes healthy by urging your senators to support the Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act of 2009 (S. 878) -- a bill that would attack beach contamination by knocking out pollution at the source.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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Dear [Decision Maker],

As a constituent and someone who cares deeply about the safety of our nation's water, I urge you to support the Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act of 2009.

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The five Great Lakes provide us with some of the finest drinking water in the world. They are the largest surface freshwater system on earth, shared by more than 40 million people.

Yet each year, Great Lakes water is mixed with over 24 billion gallons of combined sewage and for more than 14 days last summer, 84 of our beaches were unfit for swimming!

Everyone and everything needs clean water to live and thrive. The Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act of 2009 will help to keep the Great Lakes clean and families safe by cutting pollution and identifying new threats.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my comments. I eagerly await your response.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We signed the “Keep the Great Lakes Safe!” petition!

# 5,550:

4:01 am PST, Nov 21, Philippe Ducreux, France

# 5,549:

10:38 pm PST, Nov 20, Soo Thacker, Alaska
Each year, more than 24 billion gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater are dumped into the Great Lakes along with massive amounts of polluted runoff. Last summer alone, 84 beaches were unfit for swimming for at least 14 days because of dirty water!

# 5,548:

6:03 pm PST, Nov 20, Daniel Plane, Wisconsin

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11:34 am PST, Nov 20, Stephen Weatherby, Georgia

# 5,546:

10:27 am PST, Nov 18, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
This should be common sense. We and all living things need WATER we need to be protecting our fresh waters more then anything,not polluting them.

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8:00 am PST, Nov 18, Wendy Beasley, Canada

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6:14 am PST, Nov 18, Kelli Vogltance, Massachusetts

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5:32 pm PST, Nov 17, Ellie Shain, California

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11:37 am PST, Nov 16, Susan Langhi, Tennessee
This should be common sense...since policies don't line up with appropriate expectations of health and safety...let's set up the boundaries ensuring what's missing.

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9:25 am PST, Nov 13, Theresia Cronan, California

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9:24 am PST, Nov 13, Elizabeth Collins, California

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6:21 am PST, Nov 13, Jenny Oestli, Norway

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4:36 am PST, Nov 13, Allyson Sites, Indiana
This is disgusting. I, personally, will not get in the water, but so many people love to swim and play during the summer months. We need to stop dumping waste into our waters. Do you have any idea what effects this is having and will continue to have for who knows how long!?!

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12:15 pm PST, Nov 10, Asli Gedik, Germany

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11:04 pm PST, Nov 9, Loraine Yow, Oregon

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2:43 pm PST, Nov 6, Jenni Kovich, West Virginia

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12:05 pm PST, Nov 6, Michael Fumarolo, Illinois

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8:44 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, Arizona

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7:54 pm PST, Nov 5, Oska Vant Hoff, Indonesia

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9:43 pm PST, Nov 4, Amy Lippert, California

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4:20 am PST, Nov 3, Andreea Schneider, Romania

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4:09 pm PST, Nov 2, Kristie Fuller, Indiana

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6:47 am PST, Nov 2, Helle Collin, Denmark

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11:31 pm PDT, Oct 31, - -, New York

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3:33 pm PDT, Oct 31, Marissa Chiappetta, Florida

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8:48 pm PDT, Oct 30, Jane Oberlander, Washington

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3:40 pm PDT, Oct 30, Kari Dennis, Florida

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9:11 pm PDT, Oct 28, Venkatesan Parthasarathy, India

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7:10 am PDT, Oct 28, Lara Graham, Texas

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9:40 pm PDT, Oct 27, Jaime Evenstad, California

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6:26 pm PDT, Oct 25, Tristan Lestat, Alabama

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6:31 am PDT, Oct 25, Carole Hagen, Oregon

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1:39 pm PDT, Oct 24, Nicolas Valmont, Uruguay

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12:17 pm PDT, Oct 24, Maria Freitas, Portugal

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8:14 pm PDT, Oct 23, Kristen Wager, New York

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4:46 pm PDT, Oct 23, Name not displayed, Illinois

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11:56 am PDT, Oct 23, Evan Rodriguez, California

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9:44 am PDT, Oct 23, Gerlinde Palsingh, Austria

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4:06 pm PDT, Oct 22, Jennifer Lyle, Tennessee

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5:19 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, California

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3:39 am PDT, Oct 20, Sharon Gowin, Arizona

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2:06 am PDT, Oct 20, Julie Dunn LSW, Ohio

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12:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Dr. RC Sihag, India

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8:52 am PDT, Oct 19, John P. Rash, Illinois

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3:12 pm PDT, Oct 18, Maria Thyng, New Hampshire

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11:05 pm PDT, Oct 17, Kim Smith, Arizona

# 5,503:

10:05 pm PDT, Oct 17, Albert Feyen, Illinois
Our community is supplied with Lake Michigan water, so this concerns me greatly. There is nothing more important to me then the health of my family and myself.

# 5,502:

12:19 pm PDT, Oct 17, Laura Howard, Washington

# 5,501:

12:15 pm PDT, Oct 17, Stephanie Smith, Michigan

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