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The last wild clutch of Great Lakes piping plover eggs recently hatched, but the scientific details read more like a daytime soap opera script. It’s a tale of one female plover who bred this season with two males on two different Lake Michigan beaches – only the second time scientists documented that behavior. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-piping-plover-breeding

James Polidori

The Lake Erie Waterkeepers will host various stakeholders and local press aboard a ferry boat on August 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Toledo Water Crisis. Other boaters are invited to join them while monitoring marine channel 68 as they lead a boat parade in a show of support for solving the HAB problem. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-water-crisis-anniversary

James Polidori

More than a dozen Michigan beaches faced closures over the weekend due to increased bacteria levels. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality flagged the 14 Michigan beaches for increased bacteria levels, as of July 26. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-beach-closures

James Polidori

With hundreds of shipwrecks sitting at the bottom of the Great Lakes, the state of Michigan works to prevent theft, damage and corrosion with legally protected locations known as underwater preserves which were established in 1980. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-underwater-preserves

James Polidori

Escanaba, Michigan, the small Upper Peninsula town on the northern shoreline of Lake Michigan, is expecting dozens of visits from Victory Cruise Lines in 2025. Escanaba welcomed cruise ships for the first time in 2023 from American Queen Voyages, which was the successor of Victory Cruise Lines after the owner retired. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-cruise-destination

James Polidori

Biologists are investigating why whitefish numbers in the lower Great Lakes are cratering without adequate spawn classes to replace them. New evidence indicates the fish, which lay eggs on shallow reefs that rely on winter ice cover, are being squeezed by shifting temperatures. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-whitefish-populations

James Polidori

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is issuing a precautionary notice to residents based on visual confirmation of a blue-green algae bloom on Lake St. Clair. Residents on the municipal drinking water system can drink the water, unless they are notified otherwise. Read the full story by the Kingsville Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-habs-notice

James Polidori

The city of Toronto dumped more than 1,300 megalitres of partially treated wastewater into Lake Ontario during Tuesday’s torrential downpour. Three wastewater plants were “bypassing,” a process in which stormwater and sewage are diverted from a secondary treatment procedure. Read the full story by CTV News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-sewer-bypass

James Polidori

A partnership led by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the University of Wisconsin-Madison received $10 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agricultural Systems program earlier this summer. The partnership builds on existing efforts by tribal nations in Wisconsin to reinvigorate their traditional agricultural practices. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-tribal-university-partnership

James Polidori

The wreck of the historic 130-foot Margaret A. Muir schooner has been found off the coast of Wisconsin more than 130 years after it plunged to the bottom of Lake Michigan with the captain’s beloved dog on board. Read the full story by CBS News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-shipwreck-discovery

James Polidori

Lorain County commissioners and staff continue to work toward a regional sewer and storm water treatment plant that would lower costs for all residents of Lorain County, Ohio. The project has been underway for a year, but first, a number of steps in a “complex” process must be met. Read the full story by The Morning Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-wastewater-treatment-regionalization

James Polidori

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $7.56 million contract to Great Lakes Dock & Materials, LLC, to make repairs on approximately 1,450 feet of the lake side of Dunkirk Harbor‘s breakwater in Dunkirk, New York. Read the full story by WRFA – Jamestown, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-breakwater-repair

James Polidori

Although some parks and sports fields in Mississauga, Ontario, are still closed following last week’s torrential rainstorm, the city says the damage could have been significantly worse without strong stormwater infrastructure in place to mitigate the floods. Read the full story by insauga.com.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-stormwater-infrastructure

James Polidori

Wildlife monitoring of endangered Great Lakes piping plovers this summer resulted in a consecutive year for setting a record for the number of unique piping plover breeding pairs, breaking the record set last year. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-piping-plover-breeding

James Polidori

Government officials along with Citizens Against Wind Turbines in Lake Erie (CATWILE) are holding a rally to oppose wind turbines in the Great Lakes in Irving, New York. CATWILE is a group of citizens focused on informing and educating the public about the risks and opposing the building of industrial wind turbines in Lake Erie. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240724-turbine-advocacy

James Polidori