A date has been set for a Holland man to swim across Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WWMT -TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230809-lake-michigan
The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Lighthouse has been listed for sale on the coastline of Lake Superior in Chassell, Michigan. Read the full story by Smithsonian Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230809-lighthouse
Residents in Chicago, Illinois are fighting constant flooding and erosion along the shoreline. Read the full story by Grist.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230809-chicago-erosion
PortsToronto has brought in WasteShark aquadrones to add to its trash trapping program on Lake Ontario this summer in Toronto, Ontario. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230809-garbage-cleanup
Saginaw Bay Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA), in partnership with Arenac Conservation District, Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Michigan Technological University, and US Fish and Wildlife Service are conducting an ongoing project along the Saginaw Bay shoreline. Read the full story by WEYI -TV – Saginaw, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230809-saginaw-bay
The just-released results of a joint United States and Canadian research study shows that the Port of Oswego Authority in Oswego, New York, made a $513 million impact on the local and regional economy and supported 2,229 jobs by its maritime activity. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230809-port-economics
The U.S. House on Wednesday passed a bill directing completion of a new study of potential security shortfalls at the Soo Locks, as well as the supply chain and economic impacts of a potential failure at the Great Lakes shipping lock complex at Sault Ste. Marie. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-soo-locks
Lakes seeing less water moving through them due to a lack of rain may see conditions ripe for blooms to form. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-algal-blooms
One of the federally endangered piping plover chicks that’s been roaming a North Side beach in recent weeks has ties to a prominent local family. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-plover
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has filed a lawsuit against 3M and 23 other companies over contamination of its water and fish with PFAS, so-called “forever chemicals.” Read the full story by Minnesota Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-pfas
Officials of Port Milwaukee and The DeLong Co., Inc. recently celebrated the grand opening of the $40-million Agricultural Maritime Export Facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Read the full story by the High Plains Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-maritime
The US. Army Corps of Engineers is installing a new stone breakwater at Buffalo, New York’s Outer Harbor. Read the full story by The Chronicle Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-breakwater
The St. Lawrence River has at least 250 wrecks that can be explored in the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. Read the full story by WWNY -TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-shipwrecks
Wisconsin’s newest papermill, opened by Green Bay Packaging in 2021, has been validated as a “net-zero” water user. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-paper-mill
On the 43rd Governor’s Fish Ohio Day on Thursday, July 20, legislators, natural resources administrators, tourism officials and the media flocked to Port Clinton, Ohio to pay homage to what many say is the greatest of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-fish-ohio-day
City leaders have been working to push forward a unified vision for a new lakefront plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Read the full story by Cleveland Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230728-cleveland-lakefront
Invasive, bloodsucking sea lampreys are startling fishers and tourists alike in the Great Lakes, following a population spike during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read the full story by Smithsonian Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-lampreys
A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative and expensive engineering project at the 96-year-old Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River south of Chicago to block invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-invasive-carp
A triple-masted schooner that’s been turning heads for the last month as it has made its way from the East Coast to the Great Lakes is set to receive a big welcome when it sails into its new home port on Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Michigan, this week. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-schooner
Explosives will be used as work progresses toward the construction of a new superlock at the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, officials said. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-soo-locks
Visitors to several nature preserves in Lorain County, Ohio, can keep an eye out for new QR codes linking to a new website that provides more information on wildlife and restoration efforts. Read the full story by The Chronicle Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-black-river-restoration
After a decade of drastic shifts between record lows and record highs, Lake Michigan waters levels are just four inches above their long-term average for the month of July. Read the full story by WBAY -TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-water-levels
The Ohio EPA’s Total Maximum Daily Load plan for the Maumee River watershed, submitted on June 30 to the U.S. EPA, isn’t good enough because it doesn’t regulate manure generated by large livestock operations, contends a senior attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago. Read the full story by The Courier.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-lake-erie
Pools of dead fish and a milky substance along the north end of the former McLouth Steel property adjacent to the Detroit River in Trenton, Michigan, served as a clear warning sign that something was wrong. Read the full story by The News Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230712-contamination
American Queen Voyages has announced that it will no longer offer Great Lakes cruises after this year. AQV President Cindy D’Aoust said the Midwest’s winters don’t make fiscal sense for the company and it plans to plans to sell the two vessels it operates on the Lakes, Ocean Navigator and Ocean Voyager. Read the full story by WOOD-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-cruise
Monarch Point Conservation Reserve will protect 1,600 hectares along south shore of Prince Edward County. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-ontario-reserve
Wisconsin state regulators say they’re making progress on an environmental review of Enbridge’s plans to relocate Line 5 as a federal judge has ordered a partial shutdown of the oil and gas pipeline on the Bad River reservation. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-line-5
Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and a host of consumer products, the company said Thursday. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-3m-settlement
The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced a first-ever $575 million competitive funding opportunity to help coastal and Great Lake communities increase their resilience to extreme weather and rising sea levels. Read the full story by American City & County.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-climate-funding
A photo posted by the Interlake Steamship Company shows mayflies swarming a freighter in Toledo. Read the full story by WXYZ – TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-mayflies
Criminal charges are being brought by the Michigan attorney general against the owner of an industrial barge authorities said remains abandoned in Lake Michigan. Read the full story by the Huron Daily Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-abandoned-barge
The television show Expedition Unknown discovered an uncatalogued tugboat in their most recent episode. Read and listen to the full story by WRKR – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-tugboat-shipwreck
A new study proposes reducing the reliance on trucking in transporting goods between the U.S. and Canada by increasing short-sea shipping on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Maritime Executive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-shipping
NOAA is now in the process of seeking public comment about the proposed Lake Erie Quadrangle National Marine Sanctuary. Read the full story by the Erie Times-News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-marine-sanctuary
Teachers in the Lake Ontario region have a chance to board an EPA research vessel for a week on the lake. Read the full story by WWNY – TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-great-lakes-education
Great Lakes shipping is down slightly through the end of May as compared to the same time last year. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-shipping
Mayflies have begun to emerge in the western Lake Erie basin. Read the full story by WJBK – TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-mayflies
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. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-lampreys
Gray wolves are thriving at Isle Royale National Park five years after authorities began a last-ditch attempt to prevent the species from dying out on the Lake Superior island chain, scientists said Wednesday. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-wolves
The University of Minnesota – Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute has partnered with Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve to take over 300 water samples from eight different locations in the St. Louis River estuary. Read the full story by WDIO – TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-st-louis-river
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have reported that the New Lock at the Soo project remains on schedule. Read the full story by The Sault News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-soo-locks
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently revoked the PolyMet Section 404 wetlands destruction permit, a necessary permit for the project to move forward. Read and listen to the full story by the Minnesota Reformer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-loon
More than a month after one of the world’s oldest common loons was injured and vanished from a wildlife refuge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the bird was spotted back in the refuge this week – and he might not be swimming alone. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-loon
Seventy-three parcels of publicly owned shoreline along Lake Erie in Norfolk County, Ontario have been identified as being threatened by erosion. Read the full story by The Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230616-erosion
Many wetlands across the country will lose federal protections following a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-wetland-protection
The Great Lakes recorded the fourth-lowest ice cover since scientists began keeping track a half-century ago, yet another sign of the impact of climate change on the environment. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-ice-cover
The Aquarium of Niagara in Buffalo, New York has unveiled renderings of its new living museum, which features 15 brand new exhibits showcasing Great Lakes wildlife. Read the full story by Yahoo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-aquarium
With its engine on fire, the Cuyahoga — a massive commercial freighter on Lake Erie — sent out a mayday, the internationally recognized signal for distress, to anyone within range who could help. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-freighter-fire
This week, officials with the Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA) redeployed several environmental monitoring “smart” buoys” in Lake Erie, along Ohio’s northern shoreline. Read the full story by Fox Business.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-erie-monitoring
Water temperatures in the 50s may not sound that cold, but this water can immediately be life threatening. The air temperature will be in the 70s this weekend, and the water will be smooth for boaters, so expect a lot of people out on boats. Read the full story by WKBW – TV – Buffalo, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-cold-temperature
