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The Michigan House voted Tuesday to send an additional $9 million in state funding to the Midland and Detroit areas for flooding relief efforts. The bill also includes $8 million in funding for putting up a barrier at Brandon Road Lock in Illinois to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive.

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Michigan environmental officials announced that it will order the owner of failed Edenville and Sanford dams to make temporary repairs to avoid a repeat of the May flooding. The state also announced further examinations of dam integrity across the state. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200902-sanford-dam

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Scientists in Ontario are calling on the minister of natural resources and forestry to provide a scientific explanation for a scheduled province-wide hunt on double-crested cormorants. The scientists argue that the hunt fails to meet the principles of North American wildlife conservation. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200902-cormorant

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Joliet, Illinois, is talking with 13 potential partners about forming a regional water commission that would share the costs of bringing Lake Michigan water to communities that now rely on aquifers. The city is deciding whether to buy water from Chicago or build their own pipeline. Read the full story by The Herald News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-joliet

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Blount Small Ship Adventures, a small cruise company with a long-time presence in the Great Lakes, is exiting the cruise business as the coronavirus pandemic has continued to devastate the previously resurging Great Lakes cruise industry. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-blount

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Work started on a $2.9 million project to clean up an area of contaminated sediments in the Detroit River and extend the popular RiverWalk along the east riverfront by linking the MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-riverwalk

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The waters of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River have been strikingly green in recent weeks. The phenomenon is called a “whiting event,” which occurs when the weather warms up and water loses its ability to hold onto the dissolved calcium carbonate that naturally occurs in hard water. Read the full story by NNY 360.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-whiting-event

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State officials determined that a fish kill on the Escanaba River was caused by illegally discharged pollutants from the paper mill in Delta County, Michigan. Fortunately, there appears to be no long-term harm to the river’s ecosystem. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-fish-kill

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After years of contaminated stormwater runoff being washed from the streets of Rogers City, Michigan, straight into Lake Huron, community members are now teaming up with graduate students from the University of Michigan to install new stormwater management systems. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-rogers-city

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The Army Corps of Engineers recently began restoration of more than 1,300 feet of seawall along Lake Erie at Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park in Buffalo, New York, which has deteriorated over time due to ice and wave action. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-rcwilson-park

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The Door County Land Trust in Wisconsin acquired 20 acres of rare remnant boreal forest on Washington Island in Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-door-county

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A new study has found no traces of COVID-19 in Lake Superior along several of Duluth’s popular beaches, including Park Point. The beach testing is unique to Lake Superior beaches, and supports findings from earlier tests showing the risk of coronavirus transmission through water to be extremely low. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200828-superior-covid

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Engineers and biologists with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Lake County Forest Preserve District are building an artificial reef in Lake Michigan near the Illinois shoreline. The reef is designed to restore biodiversity to Lake Michigan by providing habitat for fish, salamanders, and waterfowl. Read the full story by the Daily Herald.

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A decade since scientists first discovered PFAS contamination at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan, Air Force officials say they will not commit to meeting the state’s tougher cleanup standards, frustrating local residents whose water is contaminated. Read the full story by Bridge Magazine.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-oscoda

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Michigan’s beaches, campgrounds, and parks are seeing record numbers of visitors this summer as COVID-19 concerns draw more people outdoors to socially distanced activities. Record crowds have strained park officials and resources as they face more littering and habitat disturbance from parkgoers. Read the full story by Bridge Magazine.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-park-litter

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Scientists are trying to understand and limit the spread of invasive grass carp in order to prevent a large-scale established population of the fish in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-grass-carp

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A recent study by the First Street Foundation shows that more than 113,000 homes and businesses in Indiana are more vulnerable to flooding than federal maps suggest. Read the full story by Indianapolis Star.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-flooding

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Fisheries biologists are searching for answers as to why the remains of dead adult lake sturgeon – a threatened species in Michigan – have washed up on shores near Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore. Scientists suspect botulism as the cause but are having difficulty proving it. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

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A newly constructed segment of the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline began operation under the Saint Clair River between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-enbridge

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An oil spill from the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes could destroy local economies and small businesses that rely on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-line5

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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said Friday it had denied Macomb County’s application to convert state waters into an open-air sewage treatment lagoon. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200817-macomb

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The U.S. Coast Guard warned boaters in Buffalo, New York, to avoid a stretch of the Buffalo River that had been contaminated by an oil spill. Read the full story by WYRK – Buffalo, NY.

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In a victory for nature and setback for machines, a bald eagle attacked an unsuspecting drone that was flying to survey shoreline erosion along Lake Michigan. The drone’s operators, Michigan EGLE, were unable to recover the drone and are considering ways to avoid further drone casualties. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Four Michigan tribes have been granted permission to participate in a regulatory case involving plans to tunnel the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. The ruling gives the tribes a new opportunity to formally assert their treaty rights. Read the full story by MiBiz.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200814-tribal-rights-line-5

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The state of New York announced $17 million in grants for businesses along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River to make repairs and preventative upgrades to make their properties less vulnerable to flooding. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200814-ny-grants

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Michigan officials are investigating a fish kill on the middle branch of the Escanaba River in the Upper Peninsula. The fish kill occurred downstream of a paper mill that recently reported a pipeline rupture at its wastewater treatment plant. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200814-fish-kill

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Land-use change and rising lake-levels have accelerated erosion of beaches along North Shore communities in Illinois, forcing communities to seek new solutions to restore eroding coastline. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202008134-northshore-erosion

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The Environmental Law & Policy Center accused steelmaker ArcelorMittal of continuing to violate the Clean Water Act at its northwestern Indiana facility by releasing excess ammonia into the Burns Waterway. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200814-elpc-ArcelorMittal

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced it has awarded a $137 million low-interest loan to the city of Waukesha’s Lake Michigan water pipeline construction project. The loan will help offset the financial burden of pipeline construction to ratepayers. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

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Although not the catch they expected, a pair of Ontario anglers fished a struggling moose out of Lake Superior and helped it return safely back to land. Read the full story by UPI.

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A replica of an 18th century wooden boat left Buffalo, New York, on Thursday and is expected to reach Duluth, Minnesota, sometime in September. The ship originated in Petrozavodsk, Russia, Duluth’s sister city. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Six swimmers completed a 60-mile relay swim across Lake Michigan in under 21 hours this week. The swimmers collaborated with the non-profit FLOW (For Love Of Water) to raise money and awareness for Great Lakes preservation. Read the full story by WPBN/WGTU-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-epa-waukesha

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Renovations on a road damaged by shoreline erosion on the Old Mission Peninsula in Michigan are delayed due to lack of funding. The Grand Traverse County Road Commission is hoping that water levels will soon recede, making the damages easier to fix. Read the full story by WPBN/WGTU-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Shoreline communities around the Great Lakes are urging the federal government to invest more than $500 million in waterfront protection efforts and more than $20 billion in federal water infrastructure funding. Read the full story by The Voice News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-water-infra

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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is accusing Boyce Hydro of impeding the department’s ability to assess the remaining danger from two collapsed dams that flooded Midland County earlier this year. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-midland-dam

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Milwaukee’s 467-acre port will undergo major upgrades to build an agricultural export facility and construct a new connector rail-line at the port. Read the full story by Urban Milwaukee.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-mke-port

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While Lake Michigan water temperatures are above-average this year, some areas along the Michigan coast have seen fluctuations of 30-degrees Fahrenheit due to upwelling of colder waters from the bottom of the lake to the surface. Read the full story by WBCK – Battle Creek, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-lake-mich-temps

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Researchers at Loyola University in Chicago are trapping invasive red swamp crayfish on the Chicago River system near Lake Michigan to understand their ecological dynamics and develop possible control mechanisms for slowing their spread. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-crayfish

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In the eyes of the law, water bodies remain largely unprotected. Legal scholar Kelsey Leonard says granting legal personhood to water bodies like the Great Lakes can transform how we value this vital resource. Read the full story by NPR.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-legal-rights

Ned Willig

A group of six swimmers from Holland, Michigan, are attempting to do a 40-mile swim relay-style across Lake Michigan from Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to Ludington, Michigan. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-swim-lake-mich

Ned Willig

With the recent high-water levels on Lake Superior, high-waves and storms have caused large runoff landslides, rock falls, tree blow-downs and new sand deposits along the Apostle Islands shorelines. Read the full story by the RiverTowns.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-lake-superior

Ned Willig

The International Joint Commission has started an early review of its Lake Ontario water management plan. The review is overseen by a board that includes some of its most ardent critics who are upset by the extensive flooding along the lake’s shoreline last year. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-ijc

Ned Willig

A landmark case over how hard the state of Ohio must crack down on farmers and others who allow algae-feeding phosphorus to flow off their land finished Thursday and awaits a decision. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-lake-erie-case

Ned Willig

A bipartisan coalition of state lawmakers from Northeast Ohio sent a letter to the Ohio Power Siting Board requesting that they reconsider the terms of the permit granted to the Lake Erie Energy Development Company’s 20.7-megawatt demonstration offshore wind project. The permit restricts the hours of the year the proposed wind farm can operate. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-ohio-wind

Ned Willig

In a victory for Flint, Michigan, residents whose health and homes were harmed by lead-contaminated water, the Michigan Supreme Court allowed a class-action lawsuit against public officials to proceed. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-flint

Ned Willig

A study of fish diets in Lake Michigan salmon and trout revealed changes in diets in response to changing lake ecosystems and available food sources. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-lake-salmon

Ned Willig

With warmer than average surface water temperatures on the Great Lakes this year, researchers are asking the public to help spot any harmful algal blooms on Lake Superior. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-warm-waters-habs

Ned Willig

A new research and monitoring buoy installed by University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee researchers allows the public to view lake conditions and underwater footage of Lake Michigan near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore near Traverse City, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-sleeping-bear-buoy

Ned Willig

The Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Museum is live-streaming virtual events this weekend to showcase the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary as part of NOAA’s annual Get Into Your Sanctuary event. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-nms

Ned Willig

The approval of the Water Resources Development Act authorizes federal funding for measures intended to help keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200731-invasive-carp

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