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Two harbor projects were among the $10 million in grants awarded through the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Harbor Assistance Program. Superior, Wisconsin, will receive $813,800 to stabilize the existing shoreline and remove a failing dock wall on General Mills property located on the St. Louis River, and $3 million to rebuild the dock wall on property owned by Elkhorn Industries. Read the full story by The Superior Telegram.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240212-wisconsin-superior-portfacilities

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Four U.S. representatives, including two from Michigan, and the bipartisan Great Lakes Task Force introduced the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Act of 2024 Tuesday in Washington. Right now, the GLRI is set to expire at the end of the 2026 fiscal year, but this legislation would reauthorize it for another five years through FY 2031. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240212-boost-greatlakes-funding

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Unless a protracted cold wave sets in, Lake Superior will likely set a new record this winter for lowest average amount of ice cover, according to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Read the full story by BayToday.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240212-lakesuperior-lowicecover

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The National Museum of the Great Lakes opened a new micro exhibit that examines the Great Lakes connection to the famed Tuskegee Airmen, an elite group of African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240212-museumofgreatlakes-tuskegeeairmen

Hannah Reynolds

The oil company Enbridge wants to move its Line 5 oil pipeline from the Straits of Mackinac into a tunnel beneath the lake, and the Michigan Public Service Commission recently signed off on this plan, issuing Enbridge a site permit. That decision could make things worse. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240212-relocate-line5-tunnel

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The oldest living Great Lakes piping plover has survived another migration journey, and is alive and well in her preferred winter stomping grounds in Georgia. Read the full story by MLive.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-greatlakes-pipingplover

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The St. Lawrence Seaway had a busy year during its longest shipping season ever – nearly 38 million tons of cargo transited the binational system in 2023, which was an overall increase of more than 3.4 percent. Read the full story by WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-stlawrenceseaway-shippingseason-2023

Hannah Reynolds

An engineering company being sued by Flint residents over consultation it provided following the city’s switch to the Flint River for drinking water will settle the case for $25 million — a decision that comes about two weeks before class action litigation was set to go to a second trial. Read the full story by The Detroit News.   

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-veolia-settlement-flintwatercrisis

Hannah Reynolds

The Bay of Green Bay could join a network of 30 designated coastal sites that protect and study estuaries. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-bayofgreenbay-protected-researchreserve

Hannah Reynolds

Medicinal drugs polluting the St. Lawrence River are threatening aquatic wildlife, according to a new study. Read the full story by Newsweek.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-stlawrenceriver-contaminated-toxicdrugs

Hannah Reynolds

The poor ice conditions on Wisconsin waters this winter continue to adversely affect winter fishing opportunities, including the cancellation of ice fishing tournaments. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-icefishing-poorconditions

Hannah Reynolds

This week’s windy, warmer winter weather helped to melt the ice cover around the Western Basin of Lake Erie and its Lake Erie Island area. That prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to suspend its rule requiring boaters to seek permission to 72 hours before they launch. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-lakeerie-anglers-ohio-fishingreport

Hannah Reynolds

A new report estimates it will cost several billion dollars to remove 12.7 million cubic yards of copper mining waste called stamp sands which are slowly smothering an important fish spawning reef in Lake Superior along the Keweenaw Peninsula coastline. Read the full story by MLive.   

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240202-lakesuperior-miningwaste

Hannah Reynolds

Multiple small grants have been awarded to Buffalo, New York, area organizations through the New York Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program. The projects aim to promote sustainable land use, improve water quality and manage natural resources using ecosystem-based approaches. Read the full story by Buffalo Rising.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-transformingwater-localgrants-sustainablefuture

Hannah Reynolds

The Superior Watershed Partnership recently received a Great Lakes grant to benefit water quality, coastal habitat and climate adaptation in the city of Marquette, Michigan. The $323,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Sustain Our Great Lakes Program will be used to install green infrastructure that incorporates native plant species to improve stormwater runoff at numerous sites along the ten miles of Lake Superior coastline within the city of Marquette. Read the full story by Radio Results Network.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-grant-lakesuperior-shoreline-marquette

Hannah Reynolds

The Lake Michigan shoreline transformed this week into a whimsical land of ice after a recent winter storm hit the Great Lakes region. Drone footage of both the South Haven and St. Joseph, Michigan, lighthouses covered in ice was captured last week. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-dronevideo-lakemi-lighthouses-ice

Hannah Reynolds

The Philip R. Clarke closed out the 2023-2024 shipping season on the St. Marys River, as the last freighter through the Soo Locks at around 9:45 Tuesday morning. Read the full story by Pelham Today.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-freighter-wrapsupseason

Hannah Reynolds

After netting its largest-ever catch of invasive carp in the Mississippi River in November, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is moving ahead with a revised plan to keep the bottom-feeding fish from spreading across the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Read the full story by the Pioneer Press.  

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-minnesotadnr-invasivecarpbattle

Hannah Reynolds

Farmers in Scott County, Minnesota, will have access to $8 million in grant money from the United States Department of Agriculture to implement conservation practices aimed at improving water quality and soil health, preventing erosion, and creating wildlife habitat. Read the full story by The Quad-City Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-grant-scottcounty-conservationpartnership-ducksunlimited

Hannah Reynolds

A deteriorating public access walkway in Muskegon State Park on Lake Michigan in Muskegon, Michigan, has been identified as a federal project through the Federal Coastal Zone Management Act. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-muskegonstatepark-federalfunds-walkway

Hannah Reynolds

In Richland Township, Michigan, state and federal environmental regulators are investigating a “significant” oil leak in Saginaw County. Local residents say the oil has been leaking since before the holidays. Read the full story by WJRT-TV – Flint, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-epa-egle-oilleak-saginawcounty

Hannah Reynolds

On Monday, commissioners of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District accepted a bid from Michels Corporation to build the storage facility that will permanently house polluted sediment from the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240122-michaelscorp-milwaukee-river

Hannah Reynolds

Although sodium chloride is an effective way to melt ice on roads, it can negatively impact wildlife when used in excess. Leftover road salt — or de-icing salt used on sidewalks and driveways — washes into storm drains and ultimately into our waterways. Read the full story by The Holland Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-less-salt-protect-watersheds

Hannah Reynolds

In Ohio, the Miller Ferry to Put-in-Bay and Middle Bass Island shared several breathtaking photos of Put-in-Bay that show larger-than-life rock structures. Parts of the bay and shoreline usually hidden beneath Lake Erie were on display thanks to the effects of a seiche and high winds. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-highwinds-exposes-lakeerie-putinbay

Hannah Reynolds

Driving through blizzards, gusting winds, super-chilled water — these are the things that warm the heart of a “laker.” For winter surfers on the Great Lakes, bad weather is almost always good. The worse the weather, the better the surfing. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-wintersurgers-michigan-badweather

Hannah Reynolds

Last Friday, ship enthusiasts in Northern Michigan were excited to see the Arthur M. Anderson ore carrier motor into Little Traverse Bay to seek protection from the storm. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-famousfreighter-northernmichigan

Hannah Reynolds

The Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven will host the next segment of its Working Waterfront Lecture Series, featuring a program about the Mackinac Railway ferries and their role in ice breaking on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Herald-Palladium.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-greatlakes-icebreakers

Hannah Reynolds

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and New York Sea Grant have announced they are partnering to bring eight small time grants to regional waterfront communities along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Read the full story by the Finger Lakes Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-commentary-nyseagrant-greatlakesbasin-smallgrantsprogram

Hannah Reynolds

A new $226 million stormwater master plan and flooding strategy in Innisfil, Ontario, was approved by town council, but how to pay for the plan’s recommendations is yet unknown. Read the full story by Barrie Today.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-innisfilstormwater-flooding-investment

Hannah Reynolds

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is offering everyone a chance to learn more about invasive species and what the average citizen can do to help stop their spread with a series of webinars this winter. Read the full story by WSJM – St. Joseph, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-statewebinars-address-invasivespecies

Hannah Reynolds

Basalt is the type of dark, igneous rock that forms when lava oozes out of volcanoes and cools quickly near the surface. Hawaii is mostly built from basalt, but then, so is the North Shore of Lake Superior. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-lavaflows-helpedshape-hawaii-northland-greatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

Researchers documented two baby lake sturgeon in the Grand River in 2022, indicating that the species is successfully reproducing in that river. During the 2023 research season, the team documented an additional 15 sturgeon in the river. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-lakesturgeon-grandriver

Hannah Reynolds

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is investing $4 million to advance wetland restoration and reduce harmful algal blooms in both Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay watersheds to improve drinking water and wildlife habitat. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-dnr-michiganwetlands-investment-habs

Hannah Reynolds

Wisconsin archaeologists are crediting a man and his daughter with discovering the remains of what could be George L. Newman, which sank more than 150 years ago. Read the full story by the Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-lakemichigan-sonar-shipwreck

Hannah Reynolds

The EPA has chosen the Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps (GLCCC) to receive a grant to recruit and train workers for community revitalization projects, including multiple green infrastructure initiatives and monitoring PFAS contaminants. Read the full story by the Journal Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-greatlakes-communitycorps-epa-grant

Hannah Reynolds

In a crucial step toward reintroducing Arctic grayling to Michigan waters, 2,000 young, healthy fish were stocked in three Michigan lakes last month. The initiative has been underway since the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources partnered to reintroduce the “iconic” species to Michigan waters in 2015. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-michigan-cherishedsalmon

Hannah Reynolds

The Welland Canal, running between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, will close Jan. 7, which has typically been the case since 2019, when a canal “optimization program” was started. Read the full story by the Niagara-on-the-Lake Local. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-canal-close-january

Hannah Reynolds

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a contract for the dredging of Erie’s harbor in 2024. The Corps’ Buffalo District awarded the $682,000 contract to Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction Co. on Dec. 6 for the work on the federal navigation channel in Erie Harbor. Read the full story by the Erie Times-News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-us-armycorp-erieharbor-dredging

Hannah Reynolds

Since 1964, the Niagara River of Lake Erie has installed an ice boom for each winter. The New York Power Authority could install the ice boom as-early-as December 16 for the 2023-2024 ice season. When it is installed, the ice boom will be near the outlet of Lake Erie where crews plan to reduce the amount of ice entering the Niagara River. The boom helps to strengthen the formation of a naturally made ice arch. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, NY. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-lakeerie-iceboom

Hannah Reynolds

In July 2010, one of the largest U.S. inland oil spills struck Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated the spill was upwards of 4.5 million gallons. As part of a wildlife rescue, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services relocated more than 700 northern map turtles to similar habitats along the Kalamazoo River. Over a decade later and researchers are learning just how far map turtles will move in response to environmental disasters. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-turtles-slowandsteady-race

Hannah Reynolds

Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, state and federal agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish’s hotspot hideouts. Read the full story by MPR News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-invasivecarp-traitors-slow-geatlakespush

Hannah Reynolds

The Canadian government has awarded nearly $4 million to researchers at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) to study the behavior and impacts of oil spilled in the Great Lakes. LSSU plans to collaborate on the research with Algoma University, located across the international border in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.  Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-greatlakes-oilspill-canada

Hannah Reynolds

What are the items that Muskegon’s beach cleaning robot picks up the most? Plastic fragments. Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resources Institute, which owns and operates the BeBot remote-controlled roving sand sweeper, recorded a total of 6,237 plastic fragments recovered from the beach during summer 2023. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-trashrobot-muskegonbeach

Hannah Reynolds

The 2023 harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie was more severe than expected, and it’s possible that climate change could be the reason, as the blooms are getting started earlier, a federal scientist says. Read the full story by the Advertiser-Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-algalbloom-2023

Hannah Reynolds

The U.S. EPA is providing the Gun Lake Tribal Utility Authority with a $56 million loan to support improvements to the tribe’s drinking water and water wastewater systems. The loan will help fund design and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, groundwater wells, a new drinking water treatment plant and an elevated water storage tank. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-westmichigan-tribe-federalloan-waterinfrastructure

Hannah Reynolds

Many who have lived in Michigan for a while know that November tends to have stronger storm systems and strong winds, especially over the Great Lakes. Several storms packing gale-force winds have landed in the history books for being destructive and deadly around this time of year, and there is a reason for that. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-gales-november-greatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

The US. EPA selected the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Seneca Nation of Indians to receive a total of almost $2 million in Solid Waste for Recycling Grants. These grants will expand recycling infrastructure and education for waste management systems across both nations, complement an existing capital investment project, and directly benefit communities along the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-stregis-mohawktribe-funding-epa

Hannah Reynolds

Tetra Tech Inc. has garnered a $33 million contract from the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design a new navigation lock on the Illinois River. The navigation lock is one of eight on the Illinois Waterway system connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River on the west side of the state; most of the locks are on the Illinois River. These locks adjust water levels to minimize elevation changes for ships navigating the waterways. Read the full story by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-tetratech-contract-illinoisriver

Hannah Reynolds

When the 639-foot freighter SS Carl D. Bradley sank 47 miles west of Charlevoix in November 1958, it was one of the worst shipping disasters in Great Lakes history. At the time of the Bradley’s launch in 1927, it was the longest and largest boat on the Great Lakes. It held that title for 22 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald was launched in 1958, just five months before the Bradley was lost. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023112023-bradley-historic-sinking-northernmichigan

Hannah Reynolds

Ducks Unlimited Canada, (DUC), and Raisin Region Conservation Authority, (RRCA), are celebrating the recent acquisition of 10.4 acres, of valuable connective land in the St. Lawrence River watershed. The property allows for an expansion of the Cooper Marsh Conservation Area, a popular destination for nature lovers and birders alike. Read the full story by Cornwall Seaway News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023112023-ducksunlimited-canada-raisinregion

Hannah Reynolds