Governor Gretchen Whitmer spent time on the campaign trail in Traverse City, Michigan Thursday, talking about water quality issues while stumping for a state house candidate. Read the full story by WWTV-TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201102-water-quality
The U.S. Coast Guard is reminding people of the dangers presented by cold weather as cold air and water temperatures significantly decrease survival time for anyone immersed in the water or exposed to the elements. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201102-coast-guard
Construction for FishPass hasn’t started just yet, but Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and other project partners celebrated the project’s start in Traverse City, Michigan. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201102-fishpass-traverse-city
Michigan non-profit organization Stand Up for Great Lakes made a $13,000 donation to Paddle Antrim. The donation will be used to help bring awareness to the chain of lakes in Antrim County and help keep them clean. Read the full story by WWTV-TV – Cadillac, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201102-antrim-county
This past week, the Invasive Species Centre – through the Asian Carp Canada program – presented a panel of experts to discuss the threat of Asian carps, and the measures being taken to keep these invasive species out of our Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Kingston Herald.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-carp-session
Erie, Pennsylvania’s Presque Isle State Park beaches continue to show signs of erosion, but officials are still calling the 2020 sand replenishment a success. Read the full story by the Erie Times.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-presque-isle
Due to the relatively dry spring and summer, the 2020 algae bloom came in on the lower side of the forecast which was between a 4 or 5 out of 10. Read the full story by WNWO -TV– Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-eries-habs
A partnership composed of public and private entities has accomplished its mission of restoring a floodplain in North Perry Village on Lake Erie in Ohio. Read the full story by The News Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-floodplain-restoration
The coronavirus pandemic is encouraging more Ohioans to be hikers, bicyclists, kayakers, and campers while at the same time devastating other parts of Lake Erie’s tourism-based economy, such as amusement parks and waterparks. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-erie-recreation
The coronavirus pandemic is encouraging more Ohioans to be hikers, bicyclists, kayakers, and campers while at the same time devastating other parts of Lake Erie’s tourism-based economy, such as amusement parks and waterparks. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-erie-recreation
Tamaracks are Wisconsin’s only native coniferous tree that is not an evergreen. The trees can be found throughout Wisconsin, but their numbers are dropping. Since 2000, over 150,000 acres of tamaracks have died across the Great Lakes states due to warmer temperatures, droughts and the eastern larch beetle, according to Treehaven at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-wisconsin-tamarack
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday will announce a new rule to remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states. Read and hear the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-wolf-delisting
The COVID-19 pandemic brought droves of people to Wisconsin’s outdoors this year. And a study released Wednesday but conducted before the arrival of the coronavirus lays out just how important activities like biking, camping, hiking, golf and scores of other outdoor activities are to the state’s bottom line. Read the full story by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-wisconsin-tourism
Dams are inspected by the state of Michigan on a cycle of every three years. A recent inspection ordered by Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller found the county’s dams to be in good shape with any chance of failure being highly unlikely. Read the full story by the Macomb Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-macomb-dams
Dams are inspected by the state of Michigan on a cycle of every three years. A recent inspection ordered by Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller found the county’s dams to be in good shape with any chance of failure being highly unlikely. Read the full story by the Macomb Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-macomb-dams
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, the nation’s largest provider of dredging services, announced October 22 that it is moving its national headquarters to Houston, Texas, from Oak Brook, Ill. The company will maintain a business and operations support center in the Oak Brook area. Read the full story by the Waterways Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201029-gldd
The public comment period is over for the proposed Line 5 pipeline tunnel below the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan. Read the full story by WLNS-TV- Lansing, MI
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-line-5
A Grand Traverse County, Michigan neighborhood is being notified that drinking wells may be contaminated by PFAS. Read the full story by UpNorthLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-traverse-pfas
Michigan is not doing well in caring for its beaches, according to a recently released report. The state was given a ‘D’ in the Surfrider Foundation’s annual State of the Beach report, which issues letter grades to beaches across the U.S. Read the full story by Patch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-michigan-beaches
After five years of requests to the Minnesota Legislature, the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District has received $6.75 million that will allow the facility to take the next major step on its long-term path toward energy self-sufficiency. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-sewage-energy
In more than half of the states affected by coastal flooding, people who purchase homes receive information about flood risk. What’s more, many homeowners in the most flood-prone areas are required to purchase flood insurance, which means mortgage lenders inform them of their flood risk. That’s in stark contrast with tenants: The vast majority of renters are not entitled to any information about flood dangers. Read the full story by Capital Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-renters-flooding
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District issued a public advisory for Edgewater Beach because of a sewage overflow into Lake Erie that occurred as a result of Wednesday morning’s rainfall. Read the full story by WOIO-TV-Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-sewage-erie
Any long-term and effective solution to improving the health of Ohio’s waters, and reducing the extent and severity of future HABs, must incorporate the strategic protection and restoration of wetlands and floodplains surrounding our streams, rivers, and lakes. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-protect-nature
Daniel Gildea, a scuba diving hobbyist, has discovered a centuries-old ship in the Henderson Bay area of Lake Ontario. Read and view the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-Ontario-ship
Grain shipments have been a bright spot in a tough year for shipping on the Great Lakes, to ports such as the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor and the Port of Chicago. Read the full story by the Northwest Indiana Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-grain-shipment
The State of Michigan should adapt state-wide rules that require septic system inspections before a home can be sold. It’s the kind of move that helps protect our precious water resources from aging and failing home sewage systems that are prevalent in communities across Michigan. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201022-septic-rules
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University at Behrend and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have leveraged the Comet system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to examine the distribution of plastics in one of the Great Lakes: Lake Erie. Read the full story by HBC Wire.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-lake-erie-plastics
Later this morning as part of an effort to help protect the great lakes, two state representatives will be holding a discussion on a new bill for protecting the great lakes ecosystem. Read the full story by WLNS-TV – Lansing, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-great-lakes-legislation
Great Lakes steel production rose by 7,000 tons last week but remains depressed by nearly a fifth so far this year, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-great-lakes-steel
The new tunnel for the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac is closer to becoming a reality. According to Enbridge, about 90% of the initial design work on the anticipated state-of-the-art tunnel is complete. Read the full story by Up North Live.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-enbridge-design
The pandemic and record-high waters on Lake Michigan this year threatened to undo decades of painstaking progress for a species iconic to the Great Lakes and the region’s dunes, but one piping plover was saved along the Lake Michigan shoreline before a storm threatened to wash its nest away. Read the full story by Sierra.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-piping-plover
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) today announced more than $1.1 million in coastal management grants to fund 13 projects and statewide initiatives. EGLE also has opened the application period for project proposals seeking funding in 2022. Read the full story by WLUC-TV -Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-egle-grants
A local photographer managed to capture some peculiar images of what appears to be a group of witches taking part in some wholesome fun on the water near the Credit River Inlet, just west of downtown Toronto. Read and hear the full story by BlogTo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-lake-erie-witches
The Department of Natural Resources said it is on track to meet its quota for stocking fish in Lake Michigan for 2020. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-DNR-fisheries
A bonding bill being considered during a special session of the Minnesota Legislature includes nearly $125 million for projects in northeastern Minnesota. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-minnesota-funding
The former site of Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna is in line for (at least) an estimated $35 million cleanup, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced. Read the full story by Buffalo Rising.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201015-erie-cleanup
Together, the five Great Lakes contain upwards of 6,000 shipwrecks. These vessels are scattered across the entire Great Lakes from the Thousand Islands on the eastern end of Lake Ontario to Duluth on the western end of Lake Superior and provide habitat for fish and other aquatic species. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-shipwrecks
The Trent Port Marina in Trenton, Ontario is using cutting-edge technology to filter plastic waste out of the water and stop more plastic from finding its way in. Read the full story by The Intelligencer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-plastics-cleanup
Researchers at the University of Windsor have been using an underwater robot to study harmful algal blooms and low oxygen levels in Lake Erie. Read the full story by CTV News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-uwindsor-robot
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials visited Cleveland, Ohio Wednesday announcing they will start the process to delist the Ashtabula River as an Area of Concern (AOC) “as final beneficial use impairment is removed.” Read the full story by WEWS-TV -Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-ashtabula-river
Both the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University are recipients of large federal grants announced this week to address the national rise of harmful algal blooms and the toxins they create which can endanger public health. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-lake-erie-algae
Northwestern Michigan College students aided in the multi-million dollar FishPass Project on Wednesday in Traverse City, MI. Scientists implanted radio trackers in some fish, and the students scanned the river to find them and monitor their movement. It will serve as baseline data before the systems installed. Read the full story by WWUP-Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-fishpass
For more than a decade, dozens of agencies and millions of dollars in state funding have supported the Black River Watershed Initiative in New York, and stakeholders continue to push for environmental remediation in the mostly-forested north country drainage basin. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-black-river
The federal government is about to spend $15 million on a new push to restore the Cuyahoga River by adding more twists and turns to its sections that traverse Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio. Read and hear the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-cuyahoga-restoration
The water level on Lake Michigan continued its seasonal decline and had fallen below record stage as of early October. September marked the first month of 2020 in which the Lake Michigan-Huron basin did not set a record for the highest monthly average water level. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-lake-micihgan
One of three shoreline projects in Bright’s Grove, Ontario meant to prevent Old Lakeshore Road from falling into Lake Huron wasn’t done this year and must be retendered. Read the full story by The Sarnia Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201008-shoreline-restoration
In Traverse City, the Environmental Protection Agency announced $5 million funding going towards trash free water projects. Northern Michigan communities have the chance to apply for funding to clean up the Great Lakes and beaches. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201001-epa-funding
In his role as president and CEO of the Council of the Great Lakes Region, Mark Fisher is now helping to lead a project to collect some of that plastic from marinas around the province of Ontario using two kinds of trash-trapping technology: Seabins and Littatraps. Read the full story by CBC.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201001-great-lakes-plastic
New York Sea Grant is providing property owners with virtually-available resources and assistance for erosion management. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201001-ny-erosion-management
In a crucial step toward the reintroduction of Arctic grayling to Michigan waters, 4,000 young, healthy fish were moved this month to a facility with conditions that will trigger spawning. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201001-michigan-salmon
