The Canadian government is investing $340 million to support Indigenous guardians and Indigenous Protected Areas as part of its commitment to conserving 30 per cent of the country’s lands and waters by 2030. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210823-guardians
Great Lakes coastal communities are wondering if their shoreline infrastructure will survive another round of record high water. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210823-high-water
After years of cleanup efforts, Ohio’s Ashtabula River is no longer considered one of the “most environmentally degraded” areas in the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-ashtabula
Minnesota pollution control and natural resources officials on Wednesday released a $700 million plan to improve the drinking water for 14 Twin Cities communities whose groundwater was contaminated due to decades-long chemical disposal by 3M Co. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-3m-chemicals
It took 60 years to accomplish, but Lake Erie has positive evidence that there is natural reproduction of lake trout. Read the full story by the Observer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-lake-trout
Did you know the first female conservation officer in the United States was from Michigan? It was 1897 when state game warden and future Michigan governor Chase Osborn appointed Huldah Neal deputy game warden for Grand Traverse County. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-trailblazer
Drought conditions continue to worsen across Minnesota, causing some of the state’s 10,000 lakes and rivers to have much lower water levels than usual. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-drought
For two intense weeks each July in Ohio, Case Western Reserve University hosts a camp that immerses students aged 12 to 16 in the world of shipwrecks and how to explore them. Read the full story by Patch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-students-shipwreck
The full moon of August will be visible this weekend. This month’s nickname for the full moon goes by the Sturgeon Moon. This is because in the past, sturgeon of the Great Lakes were mostly caught by Native Americans in this portion of the summer. Read the full story by WFRV-TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-stuegeon-moon
A triathlete from Ontario, Canada, learned a painful lesson recently while swimming in Lake St. Clair: Muskies might mistake your extremities as prey, and the fish have dangerously sharp teeth. Read the full story by USA Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-fish-bite
Avid boat-watchers in Michigan’s St. Clair County will have a new face to look out for next week: Theodore TOO, a 65-foot tugboat based on the TV character Theodore Tugboat. Read the full story by The Times-Hearld.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-theo
Senator Debbie Stabenow said Northern Michiganders stand to benefit from the Senate-approved infrastructure bill, with provisions that would help finance the ongoing Soo Locks improvements, and could help shoreline communities respond to their eroding waterfronts. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-infrastructure
An estimated 1,733 ships passed through the St. Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes so far this year, a 6.19% increase over transits between March 22 and July 31 of this year. Read the full story by the Northwest Indiana Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-cargo-increase
Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is assessing the state’s water quality, something that’s necessary in a state that’s rich in water resources. The department is conducting its annual surface water sampling to protect human health and aquatic life and to maintain suitability for recreation. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210820-sampling
The International Joint Commission and three Boards of Control will be holding a bi-lateral webinar later this month. Read the full story by the Finger Lakes Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-great-lakes
Scientific models of weather patterns are showing the Great Lakes Region as a force for moderating climate change like no other in the country. Read the full story by WIVB -TV – Buffalo, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-climate-change
Otter Creek in Toledo, Ohio was the site of a $12 million environmental dredging operation this summer, one which environmental regulators hope will lead to a rebirth. Read and hear the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-otter-creek
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is expanding its testing capabilities for monitoring a family of so-called forever chemicals called PFAS. Read the full story by WKAR – East Lansing, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-pfas-testing
Despite a new report of 80% healthy waterways, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have added 92 waterways to the impaired list. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-wisconsin-lakes
A buck was spotted last Friday swimming in Lake Superior from Madeline Island to Michigan Island, a distance of more than three miles. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-lake-superior
Members of the International Joint Commission (IJC) and International Lake Superior Board of Control (ILSBC) appeared before the Tiny Township, Ontario council to give a presentation on Georgian Bay and Upper Great Lakes water levels at a recent committee of the whole meeting. Read and listen to the full story by Midland Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-water-regulation
Four years after officials from central and northern New York submitted a nomination to make Lake Ontario a national marine sanctuary, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has drafted a plan to make this dream a reality. Read the full story by WRVO -TV- Oswego, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-ontario
Standing on the banks of the Niagara River at Niawanda Park in Tonawanda on Monday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer revealed an historic $1 billion federal investment – the largest ever single investment – in the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). Read the full story by the Orleans Hub.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-glri
The Port of Monroe hosted a delegation of bureaucrats from Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that has largely barred the port from handling international containerized and break bulk cargo. Read the full story by the Monroe News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210818-monroe-port
Throughout the country, scientists are studying a range of control methods to manage invasive mussels. To develop new management tools scientists are studying methods of genetic control, an approach that could spare other organisms from becoming collateral damage and potentially solve the scale problem. Read the full story by Phys.org.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-mussels-genetic
A diesel spill at the site of the new Aurora Medical Center under construction on South Taylor Drive released 1,800 gallons of diesel fuel into the environment, according to preliminary estimates from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Clean up of nearby waterways is expected to take multiple days. Read the full story by Sheboygan Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-pollution-spill
U.S. Geological Survey and University of Missouri scientists are studying a new method for controlling invasive carp. They’re studying the complex way carp eggs move in rivers, hoping they can find and remove them pre-hatch or early in life-history. Read the full story by Outdoor Life.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-carp
State of Michigan and local officials gave their latest update to residents of the Emmet County village this past week following the discovery of PFAS in residential samples more than two years ago. Read the full story by The Petoskey News-Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-pfas
The first juvenile piping plovers from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s summer 2021 fledglings were spotted this week in coastal Georgia, one of the endangered species’ wintering grounds. The news was posted last week on Facebook by the Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-piping-plovers
Days of heavy rain this month overwhelmed Milwaukee’s sewer system, sending millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into area rivers and Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-sewer
The Michigan city of Flint has completed construction of a secondary water pipeline to be used in case there is an emergency disruption to the primary water delivery system. Read the full story by WEYI–TV – Flint, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-flint-water
Water level gains this summer have been less than average. Lakes Michigan and Huron reached its monthly peak this year in January, which has only happened three other times in recorded history dating back to 1918. Read the full story by NPR.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-algae
The Mid-Michigan District Health Department has been notified by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, that an algal bloom on the lake at Paul Hubscher County Park in Sumner, MI has tested positive for algal toxin microcystin. Read the full story by The Morning Sun.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-algae
The Adopt-a-Forest program is volunteer-driven and implemented by Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources to help people engage with the outdoors and encourage them to keep public lands clean. The program conducts outreach to find volunteers and then connects them with a site in need of a cleanup. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-forest-clean-up
Hundreds got in the water north of the bridge Sunday, floating down the St. Clair River for the annual unsanctioned event. Within a couple of hours Sunday afternoon, groups began to get out of the water at the Float Down’s last stopping point in Marysville, with spectators watching from the shore as the seven-mile journey came to an end. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-port-huron
August is National Water Quality Month, a month dedicated to bringing awareness to the fact that access to clean water is a human right we all share. Read the full story by the Wisconsin Examiner.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-paper-mill
Michigan health officials are studying the frequency of certain respiratory conditions among residents living near an expanding paperboard factory in Kalamazoo that’s under scrutiny for allowing odorous chemicals to escape from its wastewater infrastructure. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-paper-mill
Conservation and Chatham-Kent officials have received numerous calls from residents concerned about spreading brown algae on the Thames River that looks similar to a fuel spill. Early indications suggest this algae is probably not of any concern in terms of toxin production. Read the full story by The Chatham Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-brown-algae
Michigan on Wednesday blacklisted a chemical distributor that’s been blamed for nearly contaminating a Metro Detroit community’s drinking water with sulfuric acid. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-chemicals
Michigan on Wednesday blacklisted a chemical distributor that’s been blamed for nearly contaminating a Metro Detroit community’s drinking water with sulfuric acid. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-chemicals
In addition to the beautiful sandstone cliffs, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore offers views of Lake Superior, massive sand dunes, stunning beaches, and elegant waterfalls. Learn more about all that this park has to offer. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-pictured-rocks
In addition to the beautiful sandstone cliffs, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore offers views of Lake Superior, massive sand dunes, stunning beaches, and elegant waterfalls. Learn more about all that this park has to offer. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-pictured-rocks
The City Council has scheduled a special meeting for Friday, Aug. 13, a session two members have called for to discuss Flint’s pending connection to the Genesee County water system and plans to blend that water with the city’s primary supplier, the Great Lakes Water Authority. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-flint
At least 36 known shipwrecks off the eastern coast of Wisconsin will get more protection since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established a sanctuary there in late June. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-shipwrecks
Water levels in the Great Lakes have decreased from record heights in 2019 and 2020, although they still remain above their average levels, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicated in its weekly forecast. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-water-levels
Freshwater turtles have become less abundant in coastal areas of Greater Toronto that have significantly decreased wetlands. Read the story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-wetlands
From lead pipes to PFAS, drinking water contamination is a major issue plaguing cities and towns all around the Great Lakes. Cleaning up contaminants and providing safe water to everyone is an ongoing public health struggle. Keep up with drinking water-related developments in the Great Lakes area. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210813-senate
The Duluth Seaway Port Authority and its terminal operations on Rice’s Point earned high marks in the recently released Green Marine 2020 environmental performance report, improving from a 3.8 rating in 2019 to a 4.0 score on Green Marine’s five-point scale. The annual report rates port authority participants in seven categories: air emissions, community impacts, dry bulk handling and storage, environmental leadership, spill prevention, underwater noise, and waste management. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-duluth-port
A new instance of the invasive plant European frogbit was discovered by the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Initial monitoring efforts found the plant has spread to numerous marshes and tributaries of the bay of Green Bay, WI that are connected by drainage ditches. Read the full story by Green Bay Press Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-invasive-species
This year, two pairs of piping plovers have decided to settle around Sandy Pond, which is a sand-filled inlet in Sandy Creek in New York state. As an endangered species their presence has stalled local sand dredging a necessity for boats to go in and out of the inlet, sparking debate as Lake Ontario is seeing low water levels this year. Read the full story by NPR News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-piping-plover
