Did the federal government let us down on cleaning up the Great Lakes?

"St. Lawrence restoration lags far behind local investment, new report finds Report Estimates $15 billion in Local Spending as Officials Warn Feds That Continued Funding Shortages Will Jeopardize the Future of the Resource - WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 27) -- A report released today by the Great Lakes Commission and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (Cities Initiative) and funded by the Joyce Foundation, concludes that local governments in the U.S. and Canada invest an estimated $15 billion annually to protect and restore the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, but cannot keep pace with the one-two punch of escalating threats to the resource and ongoing cuts in federal restoration programs." -from Federal funding for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence restoration lags far behind local investment, new report finds