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Government technologists police the lakes cleanup
Government technologists police the lakes cleanup

Government technologists police the lakes cleanup

Date8/18/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Government technologists police the lakes cleanup. Alan C. Cooper; right; with Ontario's department of the environment; watches laboratory assistant Herman Williams at the Humber River treatment plant.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011054F
The call was out for volunteers, so Doogan, a bull terrier, thought he would pitch in yesterday in the cleanup of Black Creek, between Sheppard and St(...)
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6/21/1971
Little pest: Zebra mussels like this one may be facing a hopeless future in our lakes
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4/30/1990
Zebra mussels: Reader thinks he's found parallel between the NDP's growth of power in Ontario and spread of zebra mussels in the Great Lakes
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4/30/1990
Technologists Peter Yaswnobw and Miss Maxine Wodmeyer with Blood Specimens to be tested for VD Ontario Government's Central Laboratory Highway 401 & Islington Ave
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4/6/1973
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
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A $4,000 Meter which he plans to dump into Lake Ontario is checked out by engineer George Jones
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9/29/1969
First aid for oil-soaked ducks, Ducks in Lake Ontario off Long Branch Park are getting their feathers coated with oil from a spill in the lake and the(...)
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1/7/1976
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
6/18/1984
Doom by degrees: It's becoming clear that our world is deteriorating bit by bit, a forest here, a lake there, a species somewhere else
Doom by degrees: It's becoming clear that our world is deteriorating bit by bit, a forest here, a lake there, a species somewhere else
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