Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway / Jeff Alexander.
Alexander, Jeff, 1962-
2009
QH353 .A44 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway / Jeff Alexander.
Author Alexander, Jeff, 1962-
ISBN 9780870138577 (alk. paper)
087013857X (alk. paper)
Publication Details East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xxxiii, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number QH353 .A44 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 577.63/2720977
Summary Product Description: The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. "Pandora's Locks" is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Timeline
Prologue: Death of an icon
Part 1: Dominion
1: Conquering nature
2: Vampires of the deep
3: Salt in the wound
4: Alewife invasion
5: King is born
Part 2: Plague
6: Fatal error
7: Dangerous cargo
8: Reckoning
9: Ruffe seas
10: Smoke and mirrors
11: Meltdown
Part 3: Dreissena Effect
12: Something amuck
13: Blue, green, and deadly
14: Cruel hoax
15: Caspian Sea diet
16: Whitefish and green slime
17: Paradox
18: Fear this
Part 4: Betrayal
19: Dirty secrets
20: Who's in charge?
21: Mission impossible
22: Seaway heretics
23: Westward Ho!
24: Saving paradise
Epilogue: Hope amid the ruins
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.

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