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The multi-agency Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee has received information from the University of Notre Dame about one positive environmental DNA result for silver carp in Calumet Harbor approximately one-half mile north of the Calumet River and one more at a location in the Calumet River north of O'Brien Lock.

On January 7, 2010 the University of Notre Dame confirmed that a small number of water samples taken on the North Shore Channel near the Wilmette Pumping Station in late October 2009 have tested positive for the presence of Silver carp DNA.

Great Lakes Inter-agency Task Force Chair and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced $13 million in federal funding to prevent Asian carp from migrating further toward the Great Lakes.

The Asian Carp Rapid Response Workgroup has completed fishing operations near the T.J. O'Brien Lock in an attempt to locate Asian carp after environmental DNA sampling in the area tested positive for the invasive species.

The Asian Carp Rapid Response Workgroup is closing out main project operations on a 5.7-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that began on December 2.

The Asian Carp Rapid Response Workgroup announced that a bighead Asian carp was found in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal just above the Lockport Lock and Dam.

Asian Carp Rapid Response Project to begin on Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Canal will be closed beginning December 2 in support of electric barrier maintenance.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Action Statement

The University of Notre Dame notified the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that some water samples, taken from the area between the electric barriers and Lake Michigan on September 23 and October 1, tested positive for the presence of Asian carp.