At University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Fresh Water Sciences, crew members and more than a dozen scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are preparing for a month-long trip across the Great Lakes aboard the largest vessel to navigate the Great Lakes. The samples collected will help scientists understand temperature profiles in the water as well as depth and provide insight into the food chain from. Read the full story by WISN-TV – Milwaukee, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230802-water-quality-study

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In Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan, the Marquette Maritime Museum has sponsored a new buoy to make finding shipwrecks easier for the Great Lakes Scuba Divers and Lake Preservation Club. Anchoring this buoy to the lake bottom will help the D. Leuty shipwreck, the first to be marked by the club, and its artifacts stay intact. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230802-shipwreck-exploration

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William Scriber, executive director and CEO of the Port of Oswego Authority (POA) was elected secretary of the American Great Lakes Ports Association last week. Scriber joined the POA in 2009 as logistics manager and has been the director since 2017. Under his leadership, the port set a record year in 2022 with shipping alone up over 300% compared to 2021. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230802-ferry-damage

James Polidori

Lake Michigan Carferry announced on Tuesday that it will not operate the S.S. Badger for the remainder of the season after the ship’s ramp system was damaged last month. The Badger transports passengers from Ludington, Michigan to Manitowac, Wisconsin, and was scheduled to offer overnight sailings through August 6. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Ludington, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230802-ferry-damage

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Members of the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association say they have located a vessel in deep Lake Michigan waters but will wait to publicly identify the sunken ship until a later date. So far, the only information being released is the vessel is in the West Michigan portion of Lake Michigan in very deep waters, far offshore. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230802-shipwreck-finding

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In the Stella and Starks area of Oneida County, Wisconsin, nearly 100 private wells have been tested for PFAS and more than half have come back with at least a trace of PFAS contamination. The first private well tested in Stella about a year ago came back with levels thousands of times higher than the Wisconsin Department of Health’s safe drinking water standard. Read the full story by WXPR – Rhinelander, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-private-well-contamination

James Polidori

Harmful algae blooms in Michigan and other states are spiking during the summer in freshwater bodies such as lakes, according to a recent CDC report. Toxins produced in these blooms can lead to illness in humans and animals. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-toxic-algae

James Polidori

The AFTCO Bassmaster Elite’s 102-boat field will be held at Brandenburg Park in Chesterfield Township, Michigan, at Lake St. Clair from July 27-30. After the Day 2 weigh-in, the field will be cut to the top 50, with only the top 10 advancing to championship Sunday. Read the full story by The Macomb Daily.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-fishing-tournament

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In Ottawa County, Michigan, E. coli levels continue to be a concern as dredging has resumed in the Grand Haven Channel. An advisory to “take precautions” at North Beach Park in Ferrysburg has been issued by the Ottawa County Health Department. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-bacteria-contamination

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Eastpointe, Michigan, is set to get $10 million in state funding for replacement of lead water lines after being named as an “action city” by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. On July 18, the City of Eastpointe issued a public advisory for its 13,565 water customers after water testing samples from locations with known lead water lines showed seven of 60 homes tested had results of more than 15 parts per billion (ppb). Read and listen to the full story by The Macomb Daily.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-lead-line-replacement

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A Beach Hazards Statement is in effect for the Lake Michigan shore near South Haven, Michigan, today. Northwest winds at Holland State Park will push water toward the north pier causing swimmers to get caught in the structural current and be pushed out away from shore. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-swimming-hazards

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to the Pentwater River in Oceana County, Michigan, between July 18-23. The public is asked to minimize contact with the Pentwater River in Oceana County and agricultural irrigation must be suspended 24 hours before and after treatment. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-lampricide-application

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The Harbor Princess, a boat with a storied history on two Great Lakes, has settled into its new home in Petoskey, Michigan, to offer sunset cruises on the Little Traverse Bay. The ferry service for the last few years has been port-hopping around the bay with stops to pick up and drop off passengers in Petoskey and neighboring Bay Harbor and Harbor Springs. Read the full story by MLive.

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Nearly 800 shipwrecks in Wisconsin lakes and waterways have been catalogued by the Wisconsin Historical Society Maritime Preservation Program and the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. With the right equipment and skills, it is possible to visit several of them, with many becoming popular tourist attractions for curious scuba divers, snorkelers, kayakers and boaters. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230721-shipwreck-exploration

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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision removed federal protections for many wetlands, leaving states to decide whether and how to protect them. In a watershed like the Great Lakes basin, wetland protections are only as good as the state with the weakest laws. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-wetland-protections

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Volunteers in Ellisburg, New York, are trying to make South Sandy Creek more resilient by increasing biodiversity. In just a few days, the team introduced 6,000 plants, including 25 different native species to the region. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Carthage, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-invasive-resilience

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One of Metro Detroit’s most well-known historic estates is getting a $7 million federal grant to restore Ford Cove on Lake St. Clair, improve habitats for local species and make it more accessible. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-restoration-grant

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In New York, SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oswego are collaborating with the federal Tunison Lake Ontario Biological Station and several other groups to determine the best ways to transport, raise and reintroduce the coregonine subfamily of freshwater fish. Read the full story by WXHC – Homer, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-fish-restoration

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The H. Lee White Maritime Museum in Oswego, New York, is hosting a new exhibit featuring twenty-five 3D printed and hand painted scale models of shipwrecks located beneath the waters of Lake Ontario and Central New York. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comment on the next phase of an Obama-era Great Lakes program that has become one of the region’s largest for environmental cleanups and wildlife restoration over the past 13 years. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-restoration-input

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Captain Paul Berger Jr., of the Interlake Steamship Company, said he is “at home” this shipping season aboard the M/V Mesabi Miner—an iron ore freighter dedicated to the Men and Women of Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range. Read the full story by the Mesabi Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-shipping-home

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U.S. District Judge William Conley has ordered Canadian energy company Enbridge to shutter portions of an oil pipeline that runs through Bad River Band land in Wisconsin within three years and to pay the tribe nearly $5.2 million for trespassing plus a portion of its profits until the shutdown is completed. Read the full story by Reuters.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-pipeline-ruling

James Polidori

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to significantly reduce Clean Water Act wetlands protections has caused alarm among environmental advocates who fear it will endanger crucial habitats and human health and safety. Michigan’s wetlands may fare better than other states because of strong state regulations, including part 303 of Michigan’s Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act that regulates wetlands not covered by federal law. Read the full story by Planet Detroit.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-wetland-protections

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On Friday, Drew Gronewald, an associate professor with the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, delivered his annual presentation on the current state of Great Lakes water levels. After a couple years of record highs, followed by a marked dip, Lake Michigan-Huron in 2023 is relatively unchanged from 2022; however, two factors that influence lake levels, evaporation and precipitation, are increasing in intensity. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-water-levels

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The Lincoln Township Beach on Lake Michigan in Stevensville, Michigan, has been closed for almost three years after high water levels in 2019 made for unfit parking conditions and eroded half of the parking lot and pavilion. In an effort to save one of its only public beaches, Stevensville city officials say they’re putting together plans to revive it. Read the full story by WNDU-TV – South Bend, IN.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-beach-restoration

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After years of leasing Lady Michigan to the Friends of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary for the shipwreck excursions, the owner of the boat decided not to lease it any longer and intended to move it to another location or sell it. On Thursday, Alpena developer Jeff Konczak announced that he and his wife, Tina, purchased the Lady Michigan, ensuring its long-term future in Alpena. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-shipwreck-boat-sale

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has made awards ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 available for local communities to restore and protect water quality in the Finger Lakes watershed. The grants are supported by the state’s Environmental Protection Fund and administered through the DEC’s Finger Lakes Watershed Grant Program. Read the full story by Finger Lakes Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-water-quality-grants

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On May 18, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the Lake Erie Quadrangle was officially under consideration for designation as a National Marine Sanctuary. This nomination has been in the works since 2015 and has the potential to transform Erie, Pennsylvania, economically and environmentally. Read the full story by The Erie Reader.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-sanctuary-designation

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The Viking Polaris arrived Friday in Algoma, Wisconsin, making its only stop in the state on the ship’s 15-day Great Lakes excursion tour between Duluth and Toronto. Since last fall, the community has been preparing for passengers on the city’s first cruise ship and those that will come on the eight other ships of the summer. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-cruise-stop

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The Front Range Lighthouse in downtown Cheboygan, Michigan, has been an active aid to navigation since it was built in 1880. Now owned by the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA), the lighthouse is being restored to the 1940s time period, when bright red daymarks were added to the tower. Read the full story by Cheboygan Daily Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-lighthouse-restoration

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An iconic fixture on the Welland Canal in Port Colborne’s north end, the former Robin Hood Multifoods flour mill has a new owner who has plans to keep the existing workforce and expand the facility. London Agricultural Commodities (LAC) recently announced the purchase of Ceres Global Ag’s Port Colborne terminal (formerly Robin Hood) for $4 million (U.S.). Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230619-grain-elevator-ownership

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In New York, following public concern over whether the poor air quality from the Canadian wildfires will impact drinking water, the Monroe County Water Authority says the wildfire smoke will have no impact on the quality of water coming from the tap. Chris Lamanna, director of production and transmission, explained that there has been no detectable increase in particulate matter in the raw water quality coming in from Lake Ontario or treated water going out to customers. Read the full story by WHEC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-air-quality-impacts

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Invasive, parasitic sea lampreys continue to hunt and kill Lake Superior fish above the levels biologists would like to see, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic caused parts of two summer seasons to be lost in the never-ending battle against the eel-like creatures. Lake Superior now has an estimated 108,000 lampreys, a three-year rolling average, far above the goal of 48,000 lampreys set by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Read the full story by Duluth News Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-lamprey-increases

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Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper has launched the trash-trapping, in-water cleanup technology Seabin for a second season at Buffalo Harbor State Park, New York. This is the second season for the installation of this innovative trashing/trapping device at the water’s edge of Buffalo Harbor State Park – a new tool for Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper’s efforts to prevent garbage from polluting our region’s waterways. Read the full story by Niagara Frontier Publications.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-cleanup-technology

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The city of Highland Park, Michigan, and the Great Lakes Water Authority have agreed to put a long-running court case on pause, giving the two sides more time to work out how the city will pay a $24 million court judgment after not paying disputed water and sewer bills for years. The city says it can’t afford to pay, and has requested a state financial review and expedited bankruptcy proceeding. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-water-bill-payment

James Polidori

Crews continue work restoring a floodplain that will also serve as a living laboratory for students along the Blanchard River in Findlay, OH. Local middle school students even helped contribute to the design of the seven-acre project site through the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program (GLSNRP), which is headed by the Great Lakes Commission. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-floodplain-restoration

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The Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Conservancy (SWP) staff deployed three climate monitoring and maritime safety buoys near the shorelines of Marquette, Munising and Grand Marais, Michigan, on Saturday, June 3. Each of the three monitoring buoys collect important navigation and climate planning data including wave height, wind speed, water temperature and more. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-buoys-deployed

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Representatives from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Medina County Park District and Litchfield Township cut a ribbon to celebrate Litchfield Wetlands Nature Preserve officially being open on Tuesday. It is 150 acres in total, and 80 of the acres are wetlands that are designed to treat surface runoff and reduce the amount of sediment and nutrients that flows into Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Medina County Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-nature-preserve-opening

James Polidori

Research collecting data on lake trout movement using acoustic telemetry tags in underway in Lake Ontario. The research team is using specialized tags that communicate with acoustic receivers stationed on the lake bottom and will provide information about the migration patterns and habitats used by adult lake trout. More than 350 lake trout will be tagged in 2023; the tags’ battery life allows the fish to be tracked over the next 10 years. Read the full story by Niagara Frontier Publications.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-trout-research

James Polidori

The 30th Door County Spring Lighthouse Festival is being held this weekend in Door County, Wisconsin. This fundraising weekend includes air, land, boat and adventure tours that provide access to all 11 of the treasured lighthouses of Door County and three to the south. Many of the tour excursions are part of the Lighthouse Festival weekends only, providing visitors with exclusive access to structures that are not typically open to the public. Read the full story by Door County Pulse.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-lighthouse-festival

James Polidori

For the fourth straight year, the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority will not offer its water taxi service that shuttles people across Presque Isle Bay because it was unable to find an operator for the service. The water taxi service started in 2000 as a way for tourists and residents to travel between the city and Presque Isle State Park. Read the full story by Erie Times-News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230609-erie-water-taxi

James Polidori

The Michigan Department of Attorney General filed a motion for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan as part of the State’s ongoing enforcement action against the former owners of the Edenville Dam. The east embankment of the dam failed on May 19, 2020, sending a surge of water downstream that resulted in catastrophe for the surrounding communities. Key facts have now been uncovered showing the dam’s owners, Boyce Hydro, knew of this potential failure since 2010 without divulging the defect to the state or federal government. Read the full story by The Morning Sun.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230602-dam-failure-motion

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Robert Michaels, senior attorney for the Environmental Law & Policy Center, hopes his latest legal victory will result in a healthier Lake Erie with smaller harmful algal blooms by forcing closer regulation of the industrial-sized livestock farms that produce large amounts of manure in Lake Erie’s watershed. Read the full story by The Sandusky Register.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230602-erie-regulation

James Polidori

The City of Highland Park, Michigan, and the Great Lakes Water Authority failed to meet a court-ordered deadline of May 31 to come up with a payment plan for the estimated $24 million the city owes to the suburban water authority. The two sides are still engaged in talks in hopes of having a payment plan ready for a June 6 court hearing. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230602-water-debt-payment

James Polidori

Thunder Bay, Ontario, has said goodbye to the Viking Octantis, the first cruise ship that docked for the 2023 season, but there are plenty left to come. A total of 15 cruise ship stops by four ships have been booked for this season and 24 stops by five ships have been booked for the 2024 cruise season. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230602-cruise-season

James Polidori

Detroit City Council Member Mary Waters sent Governor Gretchen Whitmer a letter asking her to rescind a permit issued by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) that she believes could result in the release of raw sewage into the Detroit River from Grosse Pointe Park. In February, EGLE issued the permit to Grosse Pointe Park, allowing them to construct the extreme emergency relief valve. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230602-emergency-pipe

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