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Pandora’s Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway

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The St. Lawrence Seaway used to be thought to be one of the vital 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 at the world’s seven seas increased global trade within the Great Lakes region. But it surely came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters’ ballast water tanks 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 lack of expertise, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It’s the tragic tale of government agencies that may have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it used to be too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North The us’s freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.

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