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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and New York Sea Grant have announced they are partnering to bring eight small time grants to regional waterfront communities along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Read the full story by the Finger Lakes Times.

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A new $226 million stormwater master plan and flooding strategy in Innisfil, Ontario, was approved by town council, but how to pay for the plan’s recommendations is yet unknown. Read the full story by Barrie Today.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-innisfilstormwater-flooding-investment

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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is offering everyone a chance to learn more about invasive species and what the average citizen can do to help stop their spread with a series of webinars this winter. Read the full story by WSJM – St. Joseph, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240115-statewebinars-address-invasivespecies

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Basalt is the type of dark, igneous rock that forms when lava oozes out of volcanoes and cools quickly near the surface. Hawaii is mostly built from basalt, but then, so is the North Shore of Lake Superior. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.

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Researchers documented two baby lake sturgeon in the Grand River in 2022, indicating that the species is successfully reproducing in that river. During the 2023 research season, the team documented an additional 15 sturgeon in the river. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is investing $4 million to advance wetland restoration and reduce harmful algal blooms in both Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay watersheds to improve drinking water and wildlife habitat. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-dnr-michiganwetlands-investment-habs

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Wisconsin archaeologists are crediting a man and his daughter with discovering the remains of what could be George L. Newman, which sank more than 150 years ago. Read the full story by the Associated Press.

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The EPA has chosen the Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps (GLCCC) to receive a grant to recruit and train workers for community revitalization projects, including multiple green infrastructure initiatives and monitoring PFAS contaminants. Read the full story by the Journal Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-greatlakes-communitycorps-epa-grant

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In a crucial step toward reintroducing Arctic grayling to Michigan waters, 2,000 young, healthy fish were stocked in three Michigan lakes last month. The initiative has been underway since the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources partnered to reintroduce the “iconic” species to Michigan waters in 2015. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-michigan-cherishedsalmon

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The Welland Canal, running between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, will close Jan. 7, which has typically been the case since 2019, when a canal “optimization program” was started. Read the full story by the Niagara-on-the-Lake Local. 

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-canal-close-january

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a contract for the dredging of Erie’s harbor in 2024. The Corps’ Buffalo District awarded the $682,000 contract to Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction Co. on Dec. 6 for the work on the federal navigation channel in Erie Harbor. Read the full story by the Erie Times-News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-us-armycorp-erieharbor-dredging

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Since 1964, the Niagara River of Lake Erie has installed an ice boom for each winter. The New York Power Authority could install the ice boom as-early-as December 16 for the 2023-2024 ice season. When it is installed, the ice boom will be near the outlet of Lake Erie where crews plan to reduce the amount of ice entering the Niagara River. The boom helps to strengthen the formation of a naturally made ice arch. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, NY. 

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-lakeerie-iceboom

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In July 2010, one of the largest U.S. inland oil spills struck Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated the spill was upwards of 4.5 million gallons. As part of a wildlife rescue, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services relocated more than 700 northern map turtles to similar habitats along the Kalamazoo River. Over a decade later and researchers are learning just how far map turtles will move in response to environmental disasters. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. 

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231215-turtles-slowandsteady-race

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Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, state and federal agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish’s hotspot hideouts. Read the full story by MPR News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-invasivecarp-traitors-slow-geatlakespush

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The Canadian government has awarded nearly $4 million to researchers at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) to study the behavior and impacts of oil spilled in the Great Lakes. LSSU plans to collaborate on the research with Algoma University, located across the international border in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.  Read the full story by MLive.

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What are the items that Muskegon’s beach cleaning robot picks up the most? Plastic fragments. Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resources Institute, which owns and operates the BeBot remote-controlled roving sand sweeper, recorded a total of 6,237 plastic fragments recovered from the beach during summer 2023. Read the full story by MLive.

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The 2023 harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie was more severe than expected, and it’s possible that climate change could be the reason, as the blooms are getting started earlier, a federal scientist says. Read the full story by the Advertiser-Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-algalbloom-2023

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The U.S. EPA is providing the Gun Lake Tribal Utility Authority with a $56 million loan to support improvements to the tribe’s drinking water and water wastewater systems. The loan will help fund design and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, groundwater wells, a new drinking water treatment plant and an elevated water storage tank. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-westmichigan-tribe-federalloan-waterinfrastructure

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Many who have lived in Michigan for a while know that November tends to have stronger storm systems and strong winds, especially over the Great Lakes. Several storms packing gale-force winds have landed in the history books for being destructive and deadly around this time of year, and there is a reason for that. Read the full story by MLive.

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The US. EPA selected the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Seneca Nation of Indians to receive a total of almost $2 million in Solid Waste for Recycling Grants. These grants will expand recycling infrastructure and education for waste management systems across both nations, complement an existing capital investment project, and directly benefit communities along the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-stregis-mohawktribe-funding-epa

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Tetra Tech Inc. has garnered a $33 million contract from the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design a new navigation lock on the Illinois River. The navigation lock is one of eight on the Illinois Waterway system connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River on the west side of the state; most of the locks are on the Illinois River. These locks adjust water levels to minimize elevation changes for ships navigating the waterways. Read the full story by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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When the 639-foot freighter SS Carl D. Bradley sank 47 miles west of Charlevoix in November 1958, it was one of the worst shipping disasters in Great Lakes history. At the time of the Bradley’s launch in 1927, it was the longest and largest boat on the Great Lakes. It held that title for 22 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald was launched in 1958, just five months before the Bradley was lost. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023112023-bradley-historic-sinking-northernmichigan

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Ducks Unlimited Canada, (DUC), and Raisin Region Conservation Authority, (RRCA), are celebrating the recent acquisition of 10.4 acres, of valuable connective land in the St. Lawrence River watershed. The property allows for an expansion of the Cooper Marsh Conservation Area, a popular destination for nature lovers and birders alike. Read the full story by Cornwall Seaway News.

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Wisconsin environmental regulators are proposing to add 51 new water bodies to the state’s list of polluted waters for 2024, as well as 81 new listings for pollutants in waterways. Phosphorus and aquatic plants account for the majority of pollution under new listings. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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An effort to block invasive grass carp from spawning in the Sandusky River will be explained during a public information session in Fremont, Ohio, on Monday. Officials are doing a study to see if sound waves, bubble curtains, and other barriers can deter the fish from spawning. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231113-efforts-deter-grasscarp-spawning

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It’s a tricky balance: get enough salt on the roads to protect drivers, but also be environmentally conscious. Salt alternatives — like beet juice, or sugar and corn by-products — are an option, but not a cheap option. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231113-beetjuice-salt-michigan-roads-winter

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After spring spawning runs, walleye return to shallow waters of Lake Erie’s western basin and up into the river during the fall season, leading to good reports of walleye catches. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Old dredge spoils may be the culprit in private well PFAS contamination around Wolverine Worldwide’s corporate offices in Courtland Township, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231113-pollutionprobe-wolverineworldwide

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Manoomin is the word in Native language Anishinaabemowin for wild rice, which is on the cusp of being designated Michigan’s state native grain. It is perhaps the most culturally significant plant species among Great Lakes tribes. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231113-tribalefforts-wildrice-mi-state-symbol

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Southeast Chicago residents joined members of the Alliance of the Southeast and Friends of the Parks to protest the 25-foot-tall waste dump the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to build on the existing confined disposal facility off of Steelworkers Park. Read the full story by WBBM – Chicago, IL.

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The St. Lawrence Seaway announced Friday the shipping channel’s St. Lawrence River section will close on January 5, 2024. That’s the latest scheduled closing since the Seaway opened in 1959. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio.  

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Check your car, kayak or a nearby rail car – it might be providing free transportation for an invasive pest or plant. And you can be part of a renewed effort to stop the invaders as the Midwest Invasive Species Information Network needs help finding and identifying invasive species. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231113-land-water-invasivespecies

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Flint residents have spent years trying and failing to get the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce laws that could prevent communities of color from bearing the brunt of pollution. They had hope when President Joe Biden took office, but then nothing happened. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-epa-environmentalracism-flint

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, reversing a Trump-era decision, is restarting a human health assessment of nitrate and nitrite, a move that has potentially far-reaching regulatory implications for one of the country’s most pervasive drinking water contaminants. Read the full story by Circle of Blue.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-epa-assessment-nitrate-drinkingwater

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Michigan is close to having its first official state grain in manoomin, a naturally-occurring rice that holds special significance to the tribes and people of the Great Lakes region. Read the fully story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-michigan-manoomin-officialstategrain

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Federal money will help accelerate habitat protection near Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula National Park, one of 10 parks prioritized in a new program announced last week. The area surrounding the park is renown for its diversity of native orchids and ferns and is considered one of the Great Lakes’ biodiversity hot spots. Read the full story by The Shoreline Beacon.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-nationalpark-federalfunds-greatlakes

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Ever want to ride your horse along the Lake Michigan shoreline? The one-month long shoreline horseback riding season at Silver Lake State Park in Mears, Michigan is underway now. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-horsebackriding-lakemichigan

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A piece of Coast Guard history now calls the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, Michigan, its home after the installation of a restored lifeboat last month. Read the full story by The Sault News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-greatlakesshipwreckmuseum-lifeboat-exhibit

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Ohio science students traveled to Stone Laboratory near Put-In-Bay, Ohio on Lake Erie recently to experience a hands-on approach to research and exploration. Read the full story by WKBN-TV – Youngstown, OH.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-localstudents-lakeerie

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On Monday, while running a survey for data collection off the shore of Lake Michigan, a University of Wisconsin student lost connection to her research boat. Now, she’s asking for the community’s help to find it. Read the full story by WISN-TV – Milwaukee, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-um-madison-research-boat-lakemichigan

Hannah Reynolds

This year’s 48th Anniversary Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event will be virtual on Friday, November 10 at 7 p.m.  Read the full story by WJMN-TV – Paradise, MI.

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On Sunday the Union ended the strike that shut down a key North American trade route when it agreed to the tentative deal with the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp covering engineering, maintenance and other worker groups in Ontario and Quebec provinces. Read the full story by Reuters.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231103-canada-unifor-union-stlawrenceseaway

Hannah Reynolds

A major effort to restore nearly 200 acres of wetland habitat at Powderhorn Prairie and Marsh Nature Preserve on Chicago’s Southeast Side is now complete after more than three years of work. The $1.2 million restoration project aims to restore natural historic water levels in the area, alleviate flooding and improve wildlife habitat. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-wetlands-restoration-chicago-powderhornlake

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Shipping on Lake Michigan and the Ohio River delivers an economic impact of more than $29.8 billion annually to Indiana’s economy and supports more than 158,000 jobs, according to new study. Read the full story by the News and Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-maritimeshipping-economy-indiana

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted an electrofishing operation on the St. Joseph River in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on Tuesday, surveying for grass carp and other invasive species. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-usfws-invasivecarp-stjosephriver

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Governor Kathy Hochul announced construction is complete on resilience projects in Monroe County, New York. The $10.4 million projects included improvements to the sewage system in Hamlin, and an upgrade to Sandbar Park in Webster. Read the full story by WHAM-TV – Rochester, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-lakeontarioflooding-hamlin

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City of Muskegon, Michigan, officials are considering purchasing 10 lakefront parcels at the former Sappi paper mill site on Muskegon Lake to increase public access on the property, which is slated for a massive mixed-use redevelopment by its pending new owner. Read the full story by Crain’s Grand Rapids Business.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-muskegon-lakefrontproperty-formerpapermill

Hannah Reynolds

The federal government has instructed workers and management in the St. Lawrence Seaway strike to sit down with a mediator this Friday and hash out their differences, as groups ranging from grain farmers to steelmakers feel the squeeze. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-stlawrenceseaway-strike-negotiations

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The transition from groundwater to Lake Michigan water for Waukesha, Wisconsin, is nearing its end, and residents are beginning to form opinions. According to a mid-October Milwaukee Journal Sentinel survey , the new water source tastes fine. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-newwaukesha-water-lakemichigan

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A labor strike has shut down a major artery for transporting goods between the Great Lakes and overseas ports, leaving some oceangoing vessels stranded or waiting to enter. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-seaway-strike

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