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Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

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assembled by Great Lakes United

last updated April 26, 2007

Events update

The governments have sent embargoed copies of a summary of the ten Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement review documents to members of the ten Review Working Groups in advance of release of the summay for public comment. The governments said the document will be released in early May. Great Lakes United will post relevant information and analyses here as they become available..

all documents in Acrobat .pdf format

Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement review timeline

Government timeline as of early spring 2007

Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement text

Current text, last revised 1987, in English
Current text, last revised in 1987, en francais

Summaries of Great Lakes United February 2007 update calls and presentations

Summary of Review Working Group documents (see also full reports below)
Summary of review of governance and institutions (see also full report below)

Summary of International Joint Commission recomendations (see also full report below)

Basin people and organizations' plans for working on the Agreement review
Great Lakes United's plans for working on the Agreement review

Official "Review Working Group" draft reports

Non-official work products of "working groups" open to anyone. Submitted to the official Agreement Review Committee on December 15, 2006. The documents could be changed, or even made appendices to another document, before being officially released for public comment, currently scheduled for mid-2007.

Executive summaries:

Compilation of the ten reports' executive summaries

Individual reports:

RWG A - Purpose and scope
RWG B - Chemical integrity
RWG C - RAPs and LaMPs
RWG D - Phosphorus and non-point source pollution
RWG E - Sediments
RWG F - Research and monitoring
RWG G - Coast Guard annexes
RWG H - Groundwater
RWG Special Issues
RWG Governance and Institutions