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Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region are leading the charge to keep our beaches and waterbodies clean through the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup — the largest initiative of its kind in the world, using innovative plastic capture technologies to remove plastic and other litter from the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Toronto Star.

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If you have spent any time on the beaches of Lake Erie lately, you may have likely noticed a big ship canvassing the water. The NOAA vessel Thomas Jefferson has been canvassing the lake for the past week by using high-tech sonar to help mariners understand what is beneath the water. Read the full story by Erie New Now.

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Native freshwater mussels have experienced dramatic population declines in the Detroit River due to habitat degradation, water pollution and the introduction of invasive species. Central Michigan University Ph.D. student Shay Keretz will be focusing her dissertation on if and where native mussels remain in the Detroit and St. Clair River. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Federal officials awarded a more than $1 billion contract to build a new chamber at the Soo Locks after months of scrambling to cover ballooned costs. Read the full story by MLive.

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Illinois fishery managers rebrand four invasive species of carp as copi. They hope the new name will help the bountiful fish land on more restaurant menus and grocery lists and eventually slow the carp’s march toward the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WBUR-FM – Boston, MA.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-copi

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio EPA are at odds over the amount of phosphorus the city of Euclid’s wastewater treatment plant can discharge into Lake Erie, and the outcome of their disagreement could have broad repercussions for sewage plant operators elsewhere in Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-phosphorus-dishcarge

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed a plan to manage the Atlantic salmon population in Lake Ontario with an emphasis on improving the survival of stocked fish and increasing the number of adult Atlantic salmon that return to tributaries to spawn. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed a plan to manage the Atlantic salmon population in Lake Ontario with an emphasis on improving the survival of stocked fish and increasing the number of adult Atlantic salmon that return to tributaries to spawn. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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The Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife recently completed spring trout and salmon stockings in Lake Michigan and its tributaries, into which it released more than half a million trout and salmon. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-trout-salmon-stock

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A shipwreck that lies submerged in Lake Michigan, about 13 miles northeast of the Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse in Wisconsin, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full story the Sheboygan Press.

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Every year, in early summer, fields of lupine erupt along the North Shore of Lake Superior, drawing love from many photographers, but over the past ten years the invasive plant has proliferated. Read the full story by Minnesota Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-lupine

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Following its addition to Michigan’s invasive species watch list last year, beech leaf disease has been found in an area of St. Clair County, according to the Michigan departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. 

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A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only about half the people in the Great Lakes states are aware of fish consumption advisories and around five million people exceed the recommended fish intake. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-fish-advisories

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With more than 12.8 million tons of recyclable plastic packaging materials landfilled every year, cleaning up and ending that waste and litter from entering the Great Lakes watershed is the top priority of a Council of the Great Lakes Region initiative. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-plastic-waste

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced 16 K-12 institutions, school districts and educational partnerships have been awarded $205,028 to develop Great Lakes-based science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational programs for students. Among the awardees is the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, which will receive $20,000 to help propel new Project Based Learning units in local schools. Read the full story by the News-Review.

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A public meeting will be held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula town of Lake Linden Tuesday, July 12 to present plans for removing vast amounts of crushed copper mining ore that’s slowly swallowing a stretch of Lake Superior coastline. Read the full story by MLive.

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The piping plover is making its last stand along northern Michigan’s west coast, with many of these small shorebirds annually nesting in Michigan’s Manistee and Benzie counties. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.

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Michigan health officials are reminding people to avoid surface water foam that could contain harmful chemicals ahead of the Fourth of July weekend. Read the full story by MLive.

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Since 2014, the Regional Science Consortium has worked to test the waters of Lake Erie for harmful algal blooms, and they’ve shared the test results with state and local authorities to warn the public of potential dangers but without grant funding, their work cannot be done. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-hab-impact

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The Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth, Minnesota has been awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to continue studying the bottom of the food chain in the Great Lakes — work that includes collecting water samples and boring into lake sediment to learn hundreds of years of history. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-phytoplankton

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This Fourth of July holiday weekend, Wisconsin DNR staff and volunteers with Clean Boats, Clean Waters will be at boat launches statewide for their 2022 Landing Blitz, reminding the public of ways boaters can help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species, which pose great risks to the health of our lakes and fisheries. Read the full story by the Antigo Times.

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Harmful algae blooms are predicted to be smaller than average this year in Lake Erie. Although the bloom may be smaller, smaller blooms can still be toxic and affect drinking water. Read the full story at WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.

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Quagga mussels are implicated in the decline of many Great Lakes fish species and their hold on phosphorus, a key nutrient in the Great Lakes, is causing huge ecological disruptions. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-1836-quagga

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How the Great Lakes’ current shape compares with their past shape is important as negotiators update the consent decree addressing commercial and recreational fishing interests in waters covered by an 1836 treaty. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-1836-treaty

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This week, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources plans to introduce a new name for the invasive fish that they hope will sound more appetizing and encourage people to target the fish for consumption. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-asian-carp

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Agencies involved in responding to last week’s release of thousands of gallons of an oil-based substance into the Michigan’s Flint River said Tuesday, June 21, that work is continuing in an effort to pinpoint the exact location of the breach. Read the full story by MLive.

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Pennsylvania’s Presque Isle State Park has returned to nearly normal operation two years after record-high Lake Erie water levels and storms caused massive damage across the peninsula. Read the full story by the Erie-Times News.

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More than 800 kilograms (1,764 pounds) of debris was taken from Lake Ontario during the two-day ‘Dive Against Debris,’ an international initiative aimed at helping keep our waters clean. Read the full story by Global News Canada.

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The MacArthur Lock resumed operation in Sault Ste. Marie this weekend after unexpected maintenance complications extended its winter closure, slowing down shipping traffic in the bottleneck between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-soo-lock

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A project to create new public hiking trails in Lake Michigan dunes took a step forward with a $100,000 grant from Entergy Corporation, the owner of the recently closed Palisades Power Plant in Covert Township, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-hiking-trail

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As Michigan wildlife officials continue in their fight against highly pathogenic Avian Influenza, dozens of dead birds, mostly cormorants, were found in Muskegon County, Michigan. Read the full story by WZZM-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-avian-flu

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Plans for the Lake Metroparks Lakefront Path in Painesville, Ohio, kicked into high gear as the park system took steps to accept donated property access for the trail and Gov. Mike DeWine signed a state capital budget that awarded $400,000 for the project. Read the full story by The News-Herald.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220622-lake-metropark

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To control the population of the invasive fish in the Great Lakes, a pesticide containing TFM (3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol) is added to spawning areas to kill lamprey larvae. However, fewer treatments due to the pandemic might have inadvertently led to a surge in lamprey populations in 2022. Read the full story by Newsweek.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220617-lamprey

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In Harbor Springs, Michigan, thousands of juvenile fish native to the Great Lakes are being meticulously monitored and raised for release by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Natural Resources Department in efforts to revitalize vulnerable fish species in the 1836 treaty territory. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220617-fish-stocking

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After last week’s oil spill in the St. Mary’s River, Lake Superior State University will put numerous oil pollution monitors around the Great Lakes, which will allow the university to quickly identify and react to spills. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220617-water-sensors

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With a healthy sturgeon population in the St. Clair River, researchers are hoping that eggs collected during spawning can help restock areas that have seen historic sturgeon declines. Read the full story by the Times Herald.

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In Indigenous communities that have lacked access to safe water for years, getting access to a safe water supply is crucial. However, perceptions of the water supply — not just how it tastes and smells, but also trust in the source’s safety — affect consumption. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Starting next week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will host the public in Luna Pier, Michigan, at the first of seven free beach walks around the state led by a coastal engineer. Read the full story by MLive.

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Stamp sand, a pulverized rock leftover from ore processing, has been dumped in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula for more than 100 years. Transforming miles of shoreline, the stamp sand is now a slow-moving ecological disaster. Read the full story by MLive.

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Two significant flood mitigation projects along Lake Ontario are now complete – one in the town of Irondequoit and the other in the Village of Sodus Point, New York. Read the full story by WXXI-TV – Rochester, New York.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220617-flood-mitigation

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Extreme water levels and stronger storms are not only threatening homes and beaches along Lake Michigan — they could also send toxic waste into communities and the lake, according to a new report by the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Read the full story by Indiana Public Radio.

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Lower lake levels offer a welcome change for communities and property owners who have been trying to keep up with erosion affecting their shorelines, but some experts are advising caution before folks get swept up in a wave of relief. Read the full story by the Record Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220617-lake-levels

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Despite the unpredictability of the global market, officials expect the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes to see stable growth during the 2022 shipping season, just like it did during a global pandemic. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-shipping-stable

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A press conference was held on Tuesday to celebrate the completion of the restoration of the Muskegon Lake area of concern at Heritage Landing in Muskegon, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.

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An environmental group calculated how much Toledo, Ohio residents and others pay for drinking water because of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, and the costs quickly add up. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-drinking-water-cost

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Six years after a panel of experts concluded that the state’s public works were in “a state of disrepair,” the quality of Michigan’s water infrastructure and the consequences of failure are no longer being ignored. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-water

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Last month’s first full month of seasonal shipping totals in the Twin Ports in western Lake Superior dipped considerably compared to the same month a season ago. Industry leaders blamed a difficult ice-out in March and April and used dip to advocate for another U.S. icebreaker. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-shipping-ice

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The tugboat named “Lake Superior” that partially sunk in the Duluth Harbor, Minnesota back in March is now floating once again. Read the full story by KQDS-TV – Duluth, MN.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-tugboat

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More than a century after they arrived, invasive sea lampreys still threaten the Great Lakes’ $7 billion fishing economy. Read the full story by Vox.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-sea-lamprey

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Oceanographers from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration have released their first algal bloom forecast for Lake Erie for the upcoming season and predict a smaller bloom compared to previous years. Read the full story by WCPO-TV – Cincinnati, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-algal-bloom-season

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