Restoring water service to seven southeast Michigan communities affected by an August 13 water main break will take even longer than initially estimated, officials for the Great Lakes Water Authority said. They attribute the delay to needing to send a piece of pipe back to its manufacturer because it didn’t meet specifications. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220831-restoringwater-mainbreak

Hannah Reynolds

A recent study out of Université du Québec à Rimouski has identified new combinations of contaminants in the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario that could affect biodiversity. Read the full story by Global News Canada.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220831-emergingcontaminants-stlawrenceriver

Hannah Reynolds

McGill University researchers and scientists have been busy launching weather balloons high above Quebec this year as part of an effort to better understand regional climate change. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220831-climatechangestudy-stlawrenceriver

Hannah Reynolds

Five million Illinoisans live near water systems that utilize Lake Michigan water, which is reported to have “worrisome concentrations” of PFAS, according to a database of Illinois PFAS water testing created by the Chicago Tribune. Local leaders in Illinois have said they were aware of the latest research regarding PFAS are awaiting new guidance from the EPA. Read the full story by The Record North Shore.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220831-foreverchemicals-treatment-water

Hannah Reynolds

City Council members from Toledo, Maumee and Bowling Green joined Rep. Marcy Kaptur at a press conference Tuesday to talk about how the Great Lakes Authority proposal could help northwest Ohio. Read the full story by WNWO-TV – Toledo, OH. 

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Hannah Reynolds

The Great Lakes are very susceptible to microplastics, because of the enormous amount of industry and the concentration of the population around the lakes. The Cleveland Water Department began testing for microplastics in 2019 and are still working to understand the problem. Read the full story by Spectrum News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220831-microplastics-clevelandwater

Hannah Reynolds

The Ohio Division of Wildlife is reminding pet fish owners not to release their aquarium fish into state waters, since they can harm native fish species. Technicians found what appeared to be a foot-long goldfish during a fish survey this month on Lake Erie in Fairport Harbor, the division posted Monday to its Facebook page. Read the full story by WJW-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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Hannah Reynolds

In the year since its designation, the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary has been busy laying the groundwork for future tourism and research, including sonar mapping of the lakebed in the entire sanctuary, installing weather buoys and searching for undiscovered shipwrecks. Read the full story by Manitowoc Herald Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-shipwreck-sanctuary

Patrick Canniff

The annual fall migration of monarch butterflies is about to be underway, when scores of the iconic black-and-orange winged insects, recently categorized as endangered, travel thousands of miles to their wintering grounds in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. As monarchs navigate through the Great Lakes, the migration is viewable in Michigan’s hotspots: Stonington Peninsula and Tawas Point State Park. Read the full story by MLive.

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Patrick Canniff

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the Ohio Power Siting had obtained enough information about the potential impacts of Icebreaker on birds and bats before issuing a permit for the project. Now that legal obstacles to the Icebreaker project have been removed, efforts to construct the demonstration wind farm in Lake Erie have started up again. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-wind

Patrick Canniff

Nearly $500,000 in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding was awarded to Muskegon County Water Resources for additional restoration work for Mona Lake. The Great Lakes fish habitat funding will pay for long-contemplated restoration of former celery fields that previously were wetlands along Black Creek and Mona Lake (located inland along Lake Michigan, northwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan). Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-restoration

Patrick Canniff

A pair of eco-friendly drones or “litter bots” made their Michigan debut in Muskegon on this week along the shores of Lake Michigan, where the drones whimsically named “PixieDrone” and “BeBot” trundled through the water and the sand gathering plastic debris that has become endemic in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive.

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Patrick Canniff

Ongoing consideration of remediation and excavation efforts for coal ash ponds in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina may have implications and serve as an example for coal ash units in Indiana and Ohio.  Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-coal-ash

Patrick Canniff

Staff and volunteers at the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority in Southern Ontario are working to restore eroding riverbanks along the Nottawasaga River to improve habitat for two species at risk, lake sturgeon and northern brook lamprey. Read the full story by Collingwood Today.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-ontario-fish

Patrick Canniff

Shannon Orr, a professor of political science at Bowling Green State University, is being recognized by Case Studies in the Environment with its top prize article for 2021 for her award-winning research into the various competing interests for keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Sentinel-Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-carp

Patrick Canniff

On a beautiful and sunny Sunday in Kingston, Ontario, a group of local divers strapped on their gear and hit the water in the name of sustainability. At Gord Downie Pier the divers convened toting along their gear in preparation for the first-ever trash dive for Sustainable Kingston’s “Underwater Pitch-IN” event. Read the full story by Global News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-trash-dive

Patrick Canniff

After a two-month delay, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced plans to start dredging the South Haven Harbor in South Haven, Michigan this month. Sampling results confirm the proposed outer harbor dredge material is suitable and 18,000 cubic yards of material will be placed as nourishment material south of South Beach. Read the full story by South Haven Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220829-dredge

Patrick Canniff

At almost 300 sites on the Great Lakes and coast to coast, unregulated buried and landfilled coal ash is putting water supplies at risk, alleges a federal lawsuit filed August 25.  Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-coal-ash

Theresa Gruninger

For the many coal plants located on the shores of the Great Lakes, coal ash flooding into the lakes and tributaries is a serious risk highlighted in a June 2022 report by the Environmental Law & Policy Center that focused on how climate change could exacerbate rainfall and high lake levels in southern Lake Michigan. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-coal-ash-climate-change

Theresa Gruninger

The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation is studying how fish species spawn in Lake Ontario and hoping to help boost their population in the process by creating two “spawning reefs” in Chaumont Bay and Black River Bay, for several species of native fish. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Dexter, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-lake-ontario

Theresa Gruninger

Located at Lake Superior State University’s Richard & Theresa Barch Center for Freshwater Research and Education, the Center of Expertise will conduct research examining the impacts of oil spills in freshwater environments to help develop effective responses. Read the full story by The Sault News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-coast-guard

Theresa Gruninger

Ohio’s South Bass Islands are hoping visitors are able to vacation and learn about the importance of Lake Erie. Ohio Sea Grant’s Aquatic Visitors Center and the Ohio State University’s Stone Lab are hard at work helping tourists understand the shared responsibility for this natural resource. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-south-bass-island

Theresa Gruninger

Large amounts of “unsightly” and smelly vegetation has been washing up on Toronto’s Cherry Beach shoreline recently, but the director of water programs at Swim Drink Fish Canada says there’s no need for alarm. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-cherry-beach

Theresa Gruninger

The Lake Erie Volunteer Science Network — a collaboration of 16 local water quality monitoring programs convened by the Cleveland Water Alliance — has published a set of standards for volunteer-collected data. The standards aim to empower communities to tell a new regional story about the health of watersheds and support smart environmental education, research, and management.  Read the full story by WaterWorld.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220826-data

Theresa Gruninger

Québec’s cold waters are and extremely low levels of pollution from industrial or urban sources is favorable for high quality algae growth. Fifteen species are now certified “Fourchette bleue” or Blue Fork 2022, a Québec certification that aims to introduce new marine products to the public while also supporting sustainable use of the resource. Read the full story by The Conservation.

 

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Theresa Gruninger

At Pere Marquette Beach in Muskegon, Michigan, Meijer announced the launch of two drones to clean up microplastics—small fragments of plastic in the environment resulting from broken down trash and debris—that have been polluting the Great Lakes shoreline. Read the full story by WOOD-TV — Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-cleanup-drones

James Polidori

A circulating petition in Haldimand County, Ontario, is asking Conservation Ontario to streamline the process to allow property owners to conduct restoration work to remedy increased erosion to the Lake Erie shoreline. Read the full story by The Hamilton Spectator.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-lakeerie-erosion

James Polidori

Members of the Ojibwe Tribe in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota have stewarded land that grows wild rice for centuries. Now, chiefs and scientists with the tribes are working with the Department of Natural Resources and the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission to protect the remaining rice lakes from further damage. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-ricelake-protection

James Polidori

Flint, Michigan, was unaffected by the water main break that affected 23 southeast Michigan communities due to Flint’s secondary water source from the Genesee County Drain Commission, a recent upgrade to the city’s water system. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-watersupply-upgrades

James Polidori

Property owners in Porter, Indiana, are seeking to undo a 2018 Indiana Supreme Court ruling that proclaimed the shoreline of Lake Michigan to be owned by the state and held in trust for the enjoyment of all Hoosiers. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-lawsuit-publicshoreline

James Polidori

A bilingual children’s book is now available at Grand Haven State Park, Michigan, to educate children on water safety measures due to increasingly frequent drownings along the West Michigan shoreline. Read the full story by the Grand Haven Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-watersafety-education

James Polidori

Great Lakes Water Authority officials announced that a replacement pipe scheduled to be delivered Tuesday to the site of a major water main break in Metro Detroit has been delayed until the end of the week. This delay could postpone repair efforts and cause another boil water advisory if water pressure is impacted by repairs. Read the full story by WDIV-TV — Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220824-watermain-repairdelay

James Polidori

On Thursday morning, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz, and members of their staffs boarded boats to enjoy the lake they have worked hard to protect. They fished for perch, cast for walleye, and searched for ways to further collaborate in their efforts to preserve Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Fremont News Messenger.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-ohiogov-lakeeriefishingtrip

Hannah Reynolds

How do you make Lake Erie “smart”? The Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA) set out to do just that. Inspired by smart cities where you can get real-time traffic updates or find a parking space on your phone, they wondered… ‘what could the lake tell us?’ Now, the CWA is impacting public health and safety while attracting good-paying jobs to Cleveland. They are diving into the water economy. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-smartlakeerie-clejobs

Hannah Reynolds

The Great Lakes Seaway Partnership today announced the tonnage report for traffic through the St. Lawrence Seaway through July, showing a continuation to a steady 2022 shipping season. Read the full story by KIWA – Sheldon, IA. 

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-grainshipments-greatlakes-stlawrence

Hannah Reynolds

A new Beaver Island passenger ferry is expected to be built in the next three to five years after the state of Michigan budgeted $14 million for the vessel, according to officials of the Beaver Island Boat Company which operates the ferry service between Charlevoix, Michigan and Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. Read the full story by Mlive.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-beaverisland-ferry

Hannah Reynolds

An Ontario family paddled for 195 kilometres downstream on the St. Lawrence River this summer, in pursuit of a mission to canoe all the way from Guelph, Ont., to the Atlantic Ocean. Their canoe journey started six years ago, when some members of the family decided to explore the rivers near Guelph, their hometown. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-ontariofamilypaddles-stlawrenceriver

Hannah Reynolds

There have been more beach advisories issued this week along parts of Lake Superior. The Minnesota Department of Health says the only current advisory to not enter the water is at Twin Points Public Access Beach, north of Gooseberry Falls State Park, which began on Tuesday.  The alert is due to water testing finding elevated E. coli bacteria levels. Read the full story by Fox 21 Online.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-ripcurrentrisks-ecolioutbreaks

Hannah Reynolds

The Great Lakes Water Authority announced that the boil water advisory, which has been in effect for seven communities since a water main break was discovered on Aug. 13, has been lifted. Only one business in Greenwood remains under a boil water advisory. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220822-watermainbreak-boiladvisorylifted

Hannah Reynolds

Professor emeritus of environment and sustainability at the University of Michigan Don Scavia explains why voluntary measures to control the nutrient runoff from farms that fuels the blooms haven’t worked and are unlikely to, and called on the EPA to shift its focus from practices to outcomes. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220819-alagl-blooms

Theresa Gruninger