A local group in Chicago is launching a campaign this fall that asks Wolf Lake fishers that catch mudpuppies, a threatened population of aquatic salamanders, to immediately release the threatened and endangered animal. Read the full story by Block Club Chicago.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-mudpuppies
A lifetime of taking in Michigan’s pristine wilderness coupled with a calling to protect it has led Colleen Linn into the research field, analyzing the division in why some people care about environmental issues and others don’t. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-michigan
Avoiding Coast Guard regulations, potential damage and a horrific cost atop the $1 million already spent and the bucketloads to come, the Ste. Claire will not sail. Essentially, it will be an ornate barge, but the owners figure the memories are more important than the motion. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-steamer
This weekend, three cruise ships made their way into the city of Milwaukee’s port, one being the Viking Octantis cruise ship. It marked one of the final ships of the 2022 season and the last Viking cruise of the season. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-cruise
A water spout was spotted in Lake Erie this weekend near Lake County, Ohio. Read the full story by WJW-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-waterspout
The Great Lakes Water Authority is asking communities that were affected by a 120-inch water main break August 13th in St. Clair County, Michigan to continue to limit outdoor water use until the authority completes a flushing and disinfection process at the main. The advisory was lifted in less than two days for most communities, and all were relieved of the boil order within a week. Read the full story by The Oakland Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-water-main
The sixth year of Harbor Fest drew hundreds out to the riverfront this past weekend to celebrate Milwaukee’s waterways. Read and view the full story by WITI-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-harbor-fest
University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professors Haoran Wei and Mohan Qin are looking into how floating plastic debris in the Great Lakes can release nano- and microplastics smaller than 10 micrometers. Read and listen to the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-microplastics
A collaborative effort by multiple agencies has signed into effect a first of its kind study examining the coasts of the Great Lakes. Read and view the full story by WJET – TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-climate-change
A new film is documenting efforts to prevent invasive carp species from entering the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Public News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-carp-film
The days are numbered for one of the oldest ships still floating on the Great Lakes, which has called Wisconsin home for 25 years. Read and view the full story by WLUK – TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-ship-scrapping
Researchers from the University’s School of Business and Economics, in conjunction with Water Wise are conducting community-based action research on Blue Economy and Freshwater Entrepreneurship. Read and listen to the full story by Soo Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-water-research
More than 15 partners in northeastern Ontario have begun the process of setting up aquaculture facilities funded through the Northern Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative. Read and listen to the full story by Elliott Lake Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-aquaculture
Several lawmakers joined preservationists on Wednesday in New York to talk about concerns with a proposal to build wind turbines out in the waters of Lake Erie.. Read and view the full story by WGRZ – TV – Buffalo, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-wind-turbines
Line 5 is still a point of cross-border contention: Enbridge says the pipeline is safe, while a Michigan study shows oil from a spill could reach Manitoulin Island and beyond. Read the full story by The Narwhal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-line-5-risks
At a public hearing Monday night, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources proposed increasing the number of Chinook salmon released from state hatcheries to 1 million. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-chinook-stocking
The Grand River in Ontario, Canada, begins its journey near Lake Huron and flows south into Lake Erie, giving it the largest watershed at approximately 7,000 square kilometers. Read the full story by The Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-grand-river
Authorities say lethal controls are needed to reduce munching birds and re-establish healthy stands of the native grain in the St. Louis River Estuary. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-wild-rice
The cost of algae in Lake Erie is falling on shoreline communities like Toledo, where toxic algae blooms hike water bills by $100 per year for a family of five. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-water-cost
A group of researchers want to make it easier for scientists to get a better picture of when flooding events might occur in Michigan by developing a new groundwater model to monitor surface and groundwater flow. Read the full story by WKAR-TV – East Lansing, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-flooding
Leaders with the University of Toledo say it was a productive season of testing new technology on Lake Erie. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-alage-monitoring
Wisconsin’s Bayfield County residents will soon have access to a map of the county’s artesian wells, following a controversial proposal to bottle and sell water from a well near Lake Superior. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-bottled-water
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued new federal health advisories for forever chemicals in drinking water and stated its intention to deliver enforceable standards by the end of 2023. For Ohio, that means more than 1,500 public water systems across the state would be forced to comply with whatever mandates come down the pike. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-pfas
Wisconsin anglers are banding together to clean-up Pike River, a known rearing pond for many popular sport fish in Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-river-clean-up
A TVO documentary mini-series premiering this coming Monday called Great Lakes Untamed will bring a “Planet Earth-style” production to the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth. Read the full story by the Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-tv-series
Lockhart Chemical Company was the source of an oily spill that spread more than 20 miles downstream along Michigan’s Flint River earlier this year. Now the company has been ordered to stop using defective wastewater and stormwater tunnels on its property. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-lockhart-chemical
The cruise ship industry is booming on the Great Lakes, and port cities are embracing it as an economic driver, with cities like Duluth — which hadn’t hosted any cruise ships in nearly a decade — investing in infrastructures such as new docks and customs facilities to welcome them. Read the full story by Minnesota Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-cruise
Wild rice, or manoomin (good seed) in Ojibwe, is sacred to Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region but changing climate, invasive species and pollution are threatening the plant. Read the full story by WHEC-TV – Rochester, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220921-wild-rice
William Dichtel, a Northwestern University chemistry professor, developed two great lifelong loves — for swimming and science — that he has pursued with an abiding passion. He has found a way to marry his passions, using science to discover better ways to remove toxic contaminants such as PFAS from water. His research found that heating a combination of a widely used solvent and lye can destroy many types of common cancer-causing PFAS found in Teflon pans and many other products. Read the full story by WBEZ – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-foreverchemicals-solutions
The summer of 2021 brought an onslaught of heavy rain, flooding freeways, knocking out power and leaving standing water in basements in communities across metro Detroit. While those memories are fresh for many, NOAA warns an increase in extreme rainfall could be on the horizon. Read the full story by the Louisiana Illuminator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-climatechange-michigan
Cruise the Great Lakes is having a record year, as passengers return by the thousands to Midwest cruise lines. In their first full season since the pandemic began, the group found an all-time high of nearly 150,000 passengers visiting Great Lakes ports, up 25 percent from 2019. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-greatlakes-cruiseindustryrebounds
Members of the Binational Public Advisory Council (BPAC) for the St. Clair River Area of Concern (AOC) gathered Tuesday evening aboard the Duc D’Orleans to celebrate four milestones in the restoration of the St. Clair River – the re-designation of four environmental challenges to Not Impaired on the Canadian side of the St. Clair River. Read the full story by the Sydenham Current.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-remedialactionplan-stclairriverboatcruise
A group of 31 registered volunteers spent two hours picking up litter from the Headlands Beach State Park along the shore of Lake Erie, in Mentor, OH on September 17. This Adopt-a-Beach program was organized by Alliance for the Great Lakes, a non-profit organization based out of Chicago. Read the full story by The News Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-headlandsbeachcleanup-adoptabeach
Water levels are again a conversation on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Instead of devastating floods, in 2022, the conversation is the exact opposite. A dry summer, with little precipitation, has led to low water levels on both the lake and river, which has caused frustration throughout these communities as recreational seasons are being cut short. Read the full story by WSYR-TV – Syracuse, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-lowwaterlevels-stlawrenceriver
The Saginaw Bay Sturgeon organization has been spearheading a push in recent years to reintroduce sturgeon into the Saginaw Bay Watershed as a part of a larger statewide, multi-year rehabilitation plan to develop self-sustaining sturgeon populations across the state. Before releasing the sturgeon, they will be fitted with a PIT tag that will help researchers track the sturgeon as they travel through the river system and into the Saginaw Bay. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-lakesturgeon-saginawbay
Officials in Yorkville, Illinois are getting ready for a hearing on the city’s use of Lake Michigan water. The hearing involves multiple states, agencies, and countries. It’s on October 21. The hearing is part of Yorkville’s ongoing project to switch to a new water source. Read the full story by WSPY News – Plano, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-yorkville-lakemiwaterhearing
A lighthouse in Kewaunee and a shipwreck near Marinette have both been added to the National and State Register of Historic Places, respectively. The Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse and the Sidney O. Neff Shipwreck have been recognized by the Wisconsin Historical Society and were named to the Register of Historic Places on Thursday, September 15. Read the full story by WFRV Local 5 – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-wilighthouse-shipwreck-historicplaces
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, located in Akwesasne, NY received more than $300,000 in federal funding from bipartisan legislation to prevent road salt pollution during the winter months. The pollution prevention funding will open up services and workshops to facilitate informed decision making in the utilization of road salt. Road salts have been a concern to Great Lakes researchers in recent years as they have been the cause of increasing salt levels in the Great Lakes and its tributaries. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220919-roadsaltpollutionprevention-stregismohawktribe
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson joined more than 25 other mayors from across the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Basin for a discussion about safe water Thursday, Sept. 15. Read the full story by WITI-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-safe-water
A federal judge said Enbridge has been trespassing for years with its Line 5 pipeline on sovereign tribal lands in Wisconsin, and some believe elements of the ruling eventually may be felt in Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-line-5
Along the shores of Lake Erie, a Northeast Ohio grassroots effort is underway. A small non-profit called Eriesponsible is doing its part to help keep the lake free of marine debris and raising awareness to protect the health of Lake Erie for generations to come. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-eriesponsible
In 2021, an invasive aquatic plant Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, or European frogbit, was sighted in the Green Bay area. Now the invasive plant has been slowly spreading in northeast Wisconsin. Read the full story by the Eagle Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-efb
The U.S. Coast Guard Station in Kenosha, and two others in Wisconsin, could receive a big boost from proposed bipartisan legislation that would authorize as much as $40 million to reconstruct each facility, according to U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, one of the bill’s authors. Read the full story by Kenosha News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-coast-guard-station
Supported by the Michigan Invasive Species program, the monthly, hourlong webinars are designed to keep people informed about available programs, current research and emerging issues in the state and the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by WCHT – Escanaba, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-webinars
A private Ontario transport operator promising 30-minute hovercraft service between Niagara Region and the Greater Toronto Area says it expects the first trips will be made in the Summer of 2023. Read the full story by Global News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-hovercraft
During a recent sampling trip in Rocky River, Ohio, a Cleveland Metroparks crew caught a pink salmon, a type of Pacific salmon that is native to Alaska. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-pink-salmon
As the focus on water safety continues to heat up, Ottawa County, Michigan’s, largest employer Gentex donated multiple digital displays to identify water and swimming conditions more prominently. Read the full story The Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-water-safety
Earthjustice estimates 2 million tons of coal ash fill will still be left behind at Indiana’s Michigan City Power Generating Station even after the planned excavation. Read the full story by the Indianapolis Recorder.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220916-coal-ash
Milwaukee will host three prominent Great Lakes summits this fall, drawing in 1,200 attendees and over $1.2 million projected in total estimated economic impact. The US Water Alliance’s One Water Summit, The Water Council’s Water Leaders Summit, and Healing Our Waters Great Lakes Conference will be heading to Milwaukee in the next few weeks. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-milwaukee-summits
Project partners including NOAA, the Great Lakes Commission and the Ohio Public Works Commission celebrated the completion of a 200-acre renaturalized area at the Valley View Area of Cascade Valley Metro Park in Ohio, located near the confluence of Cuyahoga and Little Cuyahoga rivers that flow into Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-restoration
