By Laura Weber, Michigan Public Radio Network
LANSING, MI –
Governor Granholm says she will go to Washington soon to personally plead with federal officials to block an imminent Asian Carp invasion of the Great Lakes. She says it would be an ecological and economic disaster if the locks between Lake Michigan and the Chicago-area shipping canal are not closed soon. Once that's done, she wants the federal government to create a permanent physical barrier to separate the Great Lakes from the canal.
"I mean I know it costs money to separate, completely understand that and it's a tough time," she says. "But if you don't do it now, then the costs of not going it are much more devastating to the country."
A 20-pound carp was discovered just a few miles from Lake Michigan earlier this week.