Lake Ontario’s water levels are nearly 2 feet lower than they were this time last year. It has Great Lakes officials optimistic shoreline communities will avoid any major flood damage this year. Read and listen to the full story by WBFO – Buffalo, NY.  

 

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210304-ontario

Jill Estrada

After receiving over $20 million in grant funding, the city is working to bring it back better than ever. The city recently revealed the first renditions of the repairs and upgrades they plan to make, including adding streams, ponds, trees, and environmentally friendly walkways. Read the full story by WWTV/WWUP-TV Cadillac-Sault Ste. Marie, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210304-carbide-dock

Jill Estrada

The International Joint Commission says it’s very unlikely Lake Ontario will severely flood this year. Lake Ontario water levels are now below average for the first time in years, despite high outflows from Lake Erie. Read the full story by WSYR-TV – Syracuse, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-ijc

Ceci Weibert

The Waterfront Walkway on the east bank of the Portage River in downtown Port Clinton, Ohio, is finally going to begin this year. Bids on the $1.9 million project are expected to be put out in the coming weeks and the work could start in late summer. Read the full story by The Beacon.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-walkway

Ceci Weibert

In January 2019, a Polar Vortex arrived across much of the northern United States and Canada, causing Lake Superior to begin icing over between Isle Royale and the Canadian shore. A rare ice bridge formed and a recently re-located gray wolf made her escape off Isle Royale. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-wolf

Ceci Weibert

Milwaukee’s rivers have slowly been revitalized through a variety of cleanup projects in recent years. But, the estuary — the area in which the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic Rivers meet Lake Michigan — is still one of the most environmentally degraded sites on the Great Lakes due to contamination caused by decades of industrial waste. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-estuary

Ceci Weibert

NOAA meteorologists have found a 5% decline in ice cover due to atmospheric warming. Our winter this year allowed for less ice coverage at the beginning of the season, with January seeing the second lowest coverage on record. Read the full story by WBNS-TV – Columbus, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-ice

Ceci Weibert

A feud continues in Michigan between the cities of Detroit and Highland Park around water bills that Detroit says are unpaid. Highland Park leaders pointed to an old contract and says it has paid its fair share – and then some. Read the full story by WJBK-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-water-bill

Ceci Weibert

It survived the Mataafa Storm of 1905. It sliced through the Great White Hurricane of 1913. But on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, it was fire that finally got the J. B. Ford, a 118-year-old freighter that until recently was the oldest active freighter on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210303-freighter

Ceci Weibert

The long-awaited restoration of the Grand Trunk Wetland in Milwaukee’s Harbor District is projected to begin this summer through a collaborative effort by the city of Milwaukee and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Read the full story by the Bay View Compass.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210302-wetland-restoration

Samantha Tank

The Marine Pollution Control company, founded in Detroit in 1967, was the first oil spill cleanup company in the Great Lakes and one of the very first in the nation. They have been responsible for oil spill clean ups across the Michigan and North America. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210302-oil-spill-cleanups

Samantha Tank

For the Biden administration, a strong focus on Lake Erie and the Great Lakes is one way to remind us that not every issue is strictly partisan and that environmental protection can lead to justice and equity, as Cleveland has shown the country. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210301-lake-erie-environmental-protection

Patrick Canniff

The sand clogging Cow Creek in Sarnia, Ontario, is not contaminated according to tested samples, so with dredging-permit approval from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, it can hopefully be dredged and moved back into Lake Huron to create beaches.  Read to the full story by The Courier Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210301-ontario-dredge

Patrick Canniff

Enbridge has offered lucrative deals in an attempt to win over the Ojibwe bands in Minnesota in support of a new pipeline to replace Line 3, despite increasing tensions those efforts have caused, as construction of the controversial pipeline enters its fourth month. Read the full story by Star Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210301-line-3-enbridge

Patrick Canniff

As part of the DNR’s statewide PFAS-monitoring efforts to monitor fish tissue and water chemistry at select sites around the state, smelt were collected from two sites in Lake Superior in 2019 near the Apostle Islands and off Port Wing. PFAS was detected at both locations, prompting an advisory to limit meals of smelt to one per month. Read the full story by the Brainerd Dispatch.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210301-pollution-fish-pfas

Patrick Canniff

Drivers in Wisconsin, Minnesota and other wintry parts of the world have for decades used their cold-weather street smarts to put a frozen twist on NASCAR. When the temperatures drop enough, ice racing leagues pop up on frozen lakes in communities across the Midwest and beyond. Read to the full story by Star Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210301-lake-superior-ice-racing

Patrick Canniff

The Wisconsin Sea Grant recently released its biennial report addressing the organization’s progress on its four pillars: healthy coastal ecosystems; sustainable fisheries and aquaculture; resilient communities and economies; and environmental literacy and workforce development. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210301-wisconsin-sea-grant

Patrick Canniff

With warmer weather in the forecast for the foreseeable future, the United States Coast Guard issued a warning on Thursday afternoon for the public to use caution when it comes to ice conditions on the Great Lakes.  Read the full story by Soo Today.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210226-coast-guard

Jill Estrada

Joliet, Illinois, is the latest city to give up on groundwater deep aquifers for their public water supply, voting last month to tap into Lake Michigan water provided by Chicago. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210226-joliet-water

Jill Estrada