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Tho Lalio Guardian
Today you are going to tour the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) surveillance and monitoring ves-
sel, the Lake Guardian, operated by EPA's
Great Lakes National Program Office.
This is a working ship, 180-ft long and
40-ft wide, with state of the art navigational,
laboratory and mechanical equipment.
The ship was acquired by EPA in 1 988 and
underwent extensive reconstruction. It was
dedicated in May 1991 and immediately
went into service as a floating laboratory
to fulfill its mission of gathering data about
the physical, chemical and biological
conditions of the Great Lakes.
Scientists on the Lake Guardian monitor
pollutant concentrations in the water, air,
fish, sediments and other biological matter.
They also measure the effects that pollution
and other natural and manmade stresses
are having on the Great Lakes.
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