Great Lakes Growth
The Great Lakes, America's freshwater coast, continue to struggle with the legacy of pollution, invasive species and other ills inflicted by more than a century of population growth, industrialization, shipping, waste and storm water runoff.
Population growth
The Great Lakes was the slowest-growing U.S. coastal region.
1980: 19,067,279.
2005: 19,402,664.
Percentage change: 2.
Extremes: Lake County, Ill., gained 59 percent. Ontonagon, Mich., lost 24 percent.
February 6, 2006 6:39 AM | Category: Cleanup