The National Museum of the Great Lakes has partnered with the Toledo Zoo to open a temporary exhibition titled “What’s in a Name.” The exhibit is part of a collection of nameboards from Great Lakes ships, each telling its ship’s story and the background on its name. Read the full story by WNWO-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200727-nameboard-exhibit
A 50-foot sailboat sunk on the South Side of Lake Macatawa in Michigan Saturday morning, releasing approximately 50 gallons of diesel fuel into the water. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Macataka, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200727-sailboat-spills-fuel
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources sought a written pledge from Enbridge Inc. to cover costs that would arise if oil were to leak from its dual pipelines that extend across a channel linking two of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-enbridge-to-pledge-spill-funds
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers’ contractors will no longer dump Toledo Harbor dredging silt in Lake Erie to protect the fish and wildlife habitat. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-dredge-silt
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has suspended its tagging program of salmon and trout raised at state hatcheries around Lake Michigan due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, no fisheries personnel will be collecting tags or other information from fish caught and registered at traditional fishing tournaments. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-fish-tag-collection
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler will visit Ohio this week to announce details about their Trash-Free Great Lakes Grant Program that will provide $2 million to clean up the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-lake-erie-clean-up
The Soo Locks will be receiving $123 million for the ongoing construction of the new deep-water navigational lock as approved by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. Read the full story by The Sault News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-soo-locks-construction
High water levels and the resulting shoreline erosion are turning waterfront dream homes into a nightmare for Michigan residents. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-michigan-water-levels
The hot stretch of weather, combined with light winds and sunshine, have warmed Lake Ontario to record water temperatures and Lake Erie to near record temperatures. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-record-water-temperature
Stand Up for Great Lakes is a three-man quest to paddle the Chain of Lakes Water Trail in Michigan and raise awareness for environmental issues, as well as the water trail itself. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-stand-up-paddling
Great Lakes shipping remains a mostly stable sector of the economy despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-shipping
Test results from samples taken from Ramsey Lake in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, have confirmed the presence of blue-green algae. Read the full story by CTV News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200720-algae-in-ramsey-lake
While Lake Erie’s harmful algae bloom forecast for the rest of this summer looks much better than last year, Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario are failing to meet agreed-upon milestones toward reducing nutrient loads in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-lake-erie-algae-bloom
Nestle might be selling its contentious Michigan bottled water brand, but water rights activists in the Great Lakes region aren’t so quick to let go of the issue. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-nestle
President Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for Michigan’s Midland County and the surrounding area after Gov. Whitmer sent a 50-page letter to the president requesting funds to help rebuild the region following multiple dam failures in mid-May. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-disaster-declaration
An artist and member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is being recognized for his work building traditional birchbark canoes. Read the full story by Post Crescent.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-ojibwe-artist
A court-ordered investigation on Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac found no indication of damage in the area of interest. However, a portion of the line remains shut down for federal investigation. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-line-5-pipeline
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection recently released their 2020 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report, cataloging the health of the state’s water. Read the full story by Erie Reader.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-pennsylvania-water
An iconic highway on Michigan’s car-free Mackinac Island, M-185, is just one of many casualties of high Great Lakes water levels that have wreaked havoc on public and private infrastructure statewide. Read the full story by Bridge Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-mackinac-island-iconic-highway
Algal blooms forecasted in Lake Erie are a cry for more work to be done to save the Great Lakes, environmental groups say. Read the full story by CTV – Windsor, ON.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-environmental-groups
One of the greatest ships to sail the Great Lakes, the William A. Irvin, will re-open to for public tours in Duluth, Minnesota, for the first time in three years. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-william-a-irvin
Testing performed by Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy revealed algal blooms in three Upper Peninsula lakes did not contain harmful toxins. Read the full story by WJMN – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200710-algal-bloom-health-advisory
The Soo Locks had to be shut down for more than five hours early Sunday after a 736-foot Canadian freighter lost power as it approached the system’s big Poe Lock, striking the west center pier. According to officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the impact damaged the freighter and the pier. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-soo-locks-shut-down
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory at The Ohio State University will hold a news conference on Thursday to provide their Lake Erie harmful algal bloom forecast. Read the full story by This Week Community News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-algal-bloom
Scientists have predicted that warmer, wetter and wilder weather is coming and that this will be one of the greatest environmental challenges of the 21st Century. These high water levels are putting a human face on climate change in our region. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-warmer-wetter-wilder-weather
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Duluth have been monitoring frog song along the Great Lakes for a decade as part of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-frogs-and-wetland-health
A massive cleanup is underway in Wisconsin’s Sheboygan County after a freight train derailed and spilled tons of coal into the Black River. Read the full story by WISN-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-coal-spill
The executive director of A Greener Future plans to paddle from Kingston to Niagara-on-the-Lake during July to raise awareness about garbage in Lake Ontario. Read the full story by Belleville Intelligencer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-paddling-for-a-cause
The Invitational Mills Trophy Race, one of the most prestigious and history-laden sailing races on the Great Lakes, was officially canceled this week due to COVID-19. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-mills-race-cancelled
State officials say a boat that sunk last month must be removed from the bottom of Grand Traverse Bay in northern Michigan. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-boat-at-bay-bottom
Residents of Torch Lake in Michigan are volunteering their time to clean up after 4th of July partiers. Read the full story by WWUP-TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-lake-clean-up
A Loyola University professor’s newest book looks at how lighthouses, navigational aids, and harbors transformed the Great Lakes and America. Read the full story by Capital News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200707-lighthouse-harbor-book
As part Michigan’s Aquatic Invasive Species Week, a Landing Blitz will occur at over 30 boat launches throughout the state to remind watercraft owners they should follow best practices and clean their boats, trailers, and equipment to help control the spread of invasive species. Read the full story by Cadillac News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-landing-blitz
$220 million in EPA federal funding will be used to provide safe drinking water to New York’s Upstate communities. Read the full story by WENY-TV – Elmira, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-water-infrastructure
Enbridge has still not determined how an anchor support holding up the eastern segment of the Line 5 pipeline was damaged; however, they are considering the possibility that a boat anchor caused the damage. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-line-5-damage
On the eve of a major hearing in Michigan that could decide the fate of the Great Lakes region’s most controversial pipeline, Enbridge Line 5, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked the hearing’s judge to reopen the pipeline to avoid potential job loss. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-reopen-pipeline
Illinois’ Joliet City Council members last week showed mixed inclinations on whether they want the city to build its own water pipeline to Lake Michigan or let the city of Chicago build it. Read the full story by The Herald-News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-water-options
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council and the Land Information Access Association in Petoskey, Michigan, are hosting a free virtual workshop on coastal dynamics and resilience planning that will provide a broad overview of coastal dynamics, resilience planning, and how changes in climate are impacting communities. Read the full story by the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-coastal-resiliency
New York Sea Grant and H. Lee White Maritime Museum of Oswego, New York, have announced a Virtual Exhibit Experience that showcases New York State’s lighthouses, shipwrecks, naval military battles, and 100 years of freshwater boating. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-maritime-heritage
A panel of technical experts was tasked with getting to the bottom of how the Edenville and Sanford dams in mid-Michigan failed and how this kind of catastrophe can be prevented in the future. However, confronting and solving the problems that led to this disaster requires more than a panel of experts. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-dam-experts-panel
The heat may cause lake goers to see mirages on Lake Michigan this week. Mirages over Lake Michigan typically appear upside down and above the horizon and are known as “superior” mirages. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-mirages
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported that the number of fishing licenses sold to residents has increased by nearly 100,000 this year compared to last year as fishing has been considered a safe activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full story by WSAW-TV – Mosinee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200630-fishing-licenses+
After more than a century in which Cleveland, Ohio, has hardened its shoreline with concrete, steel and boulders to defend against storms, the city and four other agencies are looking at a softer, greener and more natural solution to climate change and rising lake levels. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-recycled-river-sediment
There have been more than a dozen significant rollbacks of water-related protections that affect the Great Lakes area. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-regulatory-rollbacks
Michigan’s attorney general on Monday asked a judge to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes after Enbridge discovered that an anchor support had shifted deep below the surface. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-shut-down-pipeline
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has issued a safety notice for paddlers along a popular stretch of the Boardman River in Traverse City due to high water. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-dnr-issues-caution
Following flooding that caused the failure of two dams on the Tittabawassee River, officials say hundreds of residents in Gladwin and Midland counties are experiencing issues with their water wells. Some of the wells aren’t working properly, others are dry. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-water-issues
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is holding a series of webinars to introduce a “Total Maximum Daily Loads for Total Phosphorus and Total Suspended Solids in the Northeast Lakeshore Basin” (TMDL) study. Watch the full story by The Kewaunee County Comet.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-tmdl-webinar
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer demanded that Enbridge Energy provide proof that the damage to one of its dual oil pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac will not pose a threat to the area. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-pipeline-answers
A new culvert may replace the existing one that drains South Bar Lake into Lake Michigan. The current culvert is failing, with high water, winds and waves clogging it with sand about once a week. Read the full story by Traverse City Record Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200623-culvert
