The Medina County Park District and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will collaborate on a new 173 acre wetland project as part of Gov. Mike Dewine’s H2Ohio initiative. Read the full story by Spectrum News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-odnr-medinawetlandproject
Michigan prosecutors will appeal a judge’s dismissal of criminal charges tied to the Flint water crisis, they announced Tuesday. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-flintwatercrisis-criminalcharges
Isle Royale National Park is holding a public comment period for a proposed increase to its ferry’s fare structure beginning next year. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-ferryrateincrease-isleroyale
The city of Duluth is encouraging residents to sign up to adopt a stormwater drain of their choosing and provide periodic care for the drain, ensuring that none of the matter and material that routinely muck up the stormwater sewer system contributes to pollution of our water sources. Read the full story by WUBE-FM – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-duluthresidents-adoptadrain
A key Canadian shipping corridor is the latest waterway struggling with dwindling water levels. Parts of the St. Lawrence River near Montreal have hit 10-year lows. Seaway managers in Canada and the US are monitoring the conditions and considering boosting the flow of water from Lake Ontario to make conditions safer for commercial ships. Read the full story by Yahoo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-canadas-stlawrence-shippingroutes
In all of Split Rock’s 112-year history, the lighthouse has always had a keeper. Right now, that person is Hayes Scriven, a self-described “history geek.” He and his family live on site. The site started in the hands of the U.S. Lighthouse Service, which was eventually absorbed into the Coast Guard. In the early 1970s, the State of Minnesota took over ownership. And in 1976, the Minnesota Historical Society began to run it. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-splitrocklighthouse-keeper
Portions of the Lake Michigan beachfront in Evanston, IL have been eaten up by rising waters, impacting not only the beaches, but also parkland nearby. Temporary fixes such as sand bags and rocks were used in 2020, but now the city is looking at a long-term fix. Read the full story by he Evanston Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-longterm-lakefrontfix
Governor Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, launched the PFAS Interactive Data Viewer on October 18, a new tool to understand how PFAS are impacting Wisconsin’s lands and waters. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Independent.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221026-pfascontaminationtool-dnr-wi
This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act passed by Congress to protect U.S. waterways from abuses. Decades later, progress has been made but many waterways are still in peril and a new challenge has emerged; the fallout of thousands of sites potentially contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid substances known as PFAS. Read the full story by Macomb Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-cwa-pfas
The history of Cleveland, Ohio is intertwined with the story of its water. Jeff Opperman retells the history of Cleveland and its relationship with Great Lakes water through beer labels focused on the history of the region. Read the full story by Cleveland.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-cleveland-history
Algal blooms are wreaking havoc in Lake Erie, but the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has a plan: swamps. Since blooms commonly occur when runoff from farmland carrying fertilizer enters a body of water, like Lake Erie, a wetland that can intercept runoff from farms would act as a barrier, slowing down the flow of the water and giving the phosphorus time to absorb into the soil. Read the full story by Capital News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-algae-bloom
Graphic Packaging spilled roughly 1,500 gallons of industrial wastewater into the Kalamazoo River this past week, sparking a no-contact order along a nearly six mile stretch of the river north of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-kalamazoo-river
Community member conflict and criticism increase over limited involvement and PFAS cleanup efforts and plans at Wurtsmith Air Force Base Oscoda, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-pfas
Coastal port congestion is sparking interest in short-sea shipping on the Great Lakes, in U.S. ports like the Port of Cleveland and in Canadian ports. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-short-shipping
CCGS Vincent Massey and her two sister ships, CCGS Jean Goodwill and CCGS Captain Molly Kool, were purchased in 2018 to keep icebreaking services running in Atlantic Canada, the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Maritime Executive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-icebreaker
This past week the Western New York Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management hosted its Invasive Species Symposium at SUNY Buffalo State, which is home to the Great Lakes Center. Over the course of the day, partners spoke about some of the many different adaptive management approaches that are in use across the region on both land and water, and what can be learned from their successes and failures. Read the full story by The Post-Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-new-york-invasive
Lake Ontario’s levels are currently just below the historical average, and just about a foot lower than at this time last year. Officials state that this is above the record lows, and within a normal range. Read the full story by WRVO-TV – Oswego, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-lake-ontario
Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3.5 million tons in September, a decrease of 3.7 percent compared to a year ago. Limestone cargos were below the month’s 5-year average by 2.7 percent. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221024-limestone-shipping
Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) has announced $1.5 million have been awarded to five projects focused on combatting the harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes. The funding will support a variety of research and technological projects that are being led by national partners in both private and public sectors. Read the full story by WTVG – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-habs-funding
The Justice Department announced a proposed modified consent decree with Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge on Tuesday that would no longer require the company to conduct internal inspections of certain kinds of cracks in its nearly 70-year-old, twin underwater oil and natural gas pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-pipeline-inspections
Karen Murchie, director of freshwater research at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and a dedicated group of volunteers have forged ahead with studies that monitor whether suckers are loyal to the same spawning sites year after year and whether climate change is impacting their migratory patterns, drawing attention from the broader scientific community. Read the full story by WTTW – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-sucker-research
Ashley Watt, a University of Windsor doctoral student studying conservation, runs a YouTube channel about the redside dace and recently published a children’s book about the dangers it faces and how people can help protect it. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-minnow-education
The FishPass project in Traverse City, Michigan, can move forward following an opinion issued by a panel of judges with the Michigan Court of Appeals. The project would replace the Union Street Dam with a facility where scientists could test sorting technology to limit the amount of fish passing through the Boardman River. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-fishpass-project
On Friday, October 21, volunteers and big boat owners will come together to put away their boats for winter storage at the annual end-of-the-sailing-season ritual at the Milwaukee Sailing Center. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-sailing-season-ends
One of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin’s, most important streams for spawning fish is nearing a return to its natural state following years of disruption due to the habitat being destroyed by heavy rainfall and an emergency response. Read the full story by Ozaukee Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-fish-stream
Author David Hoppe of Long Beach, Indiana, recently published a book about life in the Indiana Dunes. Hoppe’s “Letters from Michiana: Reflections Along Lake Michigan’s Southern Shore” is a collection of essays on subjects that vary from public access to Indiana’s beaches to raking leaves in a forest. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-lake-michigan-book
The Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) held a Tekakwitha Island, Québec, “clean-up operation” on Saturday for the second time – last year’s haul included a propeller, a bicycle, and a manhole cover. For KEPO, collaborating with environmental groups helps the organization pursue its larger goals around helping Kahnawa’kehró:non connect to and protect the natural world. Read the full story by The Eastern Door.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-river-cleanup
In Seneca and Oswego counties, New York, state training workshops will help guide local governments through a variety of watershed issues, including floodplains and watersheds, why these features are important, and how they can be better protected with land use tools and best management practices. Read the full story by The Citizen.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221021-watershed-workshops
Pipelines could be coming down the pike as a coalition of farmers, industry experts, and local politicians are attempting to construct an irrigation network across Niagara to stave off the worsening effects of climate change. Read the full story by Niagara This Week.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-irrigation-niagara-waterscarcity
The Swim Drink Fish Great Lakes protection project was launched September 26 in Niagara on the Lake with a number of First Nations leaders from Manitoulin Island as key participants. Read the full story by the Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-manitoulinfirstnations-swimdrinkfishproject
Great Lakes shipping is down 5.63% so far this year, but a strong September brought the total closer to its 2021 level. Read the full story by NWITimes.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-greatlakesshipping
Milwaukee has launched the Water Current Tour, a self-guided walking tour that showcases how the city manages its natural water resources in a sustainable and resilient way. The Water Current tour is part of Milwaukee’s Water Centric City Initiative. Read the full story by WITI-TV- Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-milwaukee-watercurrenttour
Saved from recent high-water levels that threatened its very foundation, Fishtown in Leland, one of Northern Michigan’s most iconic tourist attractions is working to help with a save of its own: preserving the state’s fading commercial fishing heritage. Read the full story by Traverse Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-fishtown-mifadingfishingheritage
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the City of Lorain dedicated the Martin’s Run Wetland And Stream Restoration Project in Lorain County on Oct. 18, as a part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative. Read the full story by Spectrum News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-odnr-newwetland-loraincounty
A study soon to be released reveals that due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing limited treatment control on sea lamprey, there was an increase in the invasive species numbers throughout the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-pandemic-negativeimpacts-invasivespeciescontrol-greatlakes
This summer was a record-breaking cruising season along the Great Lakes: 52 cruise ships visited Detroit in 2022, more than double the last cruising season in 2019. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-cruiseships-detroit
The U.S. Supreme Court may decide next week whether to hear an appeal filed by three lake-adjacent property owners in the town of Porter who have been unsuccessful in their attempts to claim ownership of a private beach on Lake Michigan. Read the full story by Northwest Indiana Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-ussupremecourt-lakemi-beachowners
Enbridge Energy, the owner and operator of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota, will pay more than $11 million after investigations identified water quality violations and three aquifer breaches related to the pipeline’s construction. Read the full story by WIZM – La Crosse, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221019-minnesota-pipelineviolations
Dozens of waste-collection drones and beach-cleaning robots join in-water trash receptables across the Great Lakes this fall. Read the full story by The Verge.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-plastic-pollution
Two men caught cheating during a Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament in Cleveland, Ohio will face criminal charges. Read and view the full story by National Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-fish-tournament
An algae bloom in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness near Tofte, Minnesota has sparked questions and concerns from locals. Read and hear the full story by MNP News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-algae-blooms
The nonprofit group Friends of the Apostle Islands, with a funding match from the National Park Service, plans to improve wheelchair access to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-apostle-islands
The New York Sea Grant will look at the question of climate-induced human migration in the state. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-climate-migration
The Port of Cleveland, Ohio’s board of directors took a vital step forward this week in embarking on a $300 million, multi-decade and ‘transformational’ project that would dramatically redefine the eastern shoreline of Lake Erie. Read and hear the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-cleveland-cheers
Lake Michigan’s water levels continue to drop from the record highs of 2020 as it enters the seasonal period when officials say evaporation is at its peak. Read and view the full story by the Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-water-levels
“Great Lakes Untamed” is the definitive piece of natural history about the lakes and covers their history and the role they play in human lives. Read the full story by Deeper Blue.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-great-lakes-video
Cruise ships docked in Detroit, Michigan more than 50 times during the 2022 season, a record and more than double the amount of dockings in Detroit in 2019, the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority and a coalition of Midwest states, cruise lines and others said Friday. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-cruise-activity
At a Sunday climate justice rally, residents from Evanston and Chicago, Illinois came together to protest Enbridge’s Line 3 and Line 5. Read the full story by The Daily Northwestern.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221017-pipelines
Top research scientists from across the country are working to control the impacts of the invasive zebra and quagga mussels with biocontrol agents in labs, while others are experimenting with blunt instruments, deep down on the bottom of Lake Michigan. Read and listen to the full story by WIAA – Interlochen, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221014-mussel-control
Two months after a break in the Great Lakes Water Authority pipeline that supplies Flint, Michigan’s drinking water, the city has completed the process of reintroducing GLWA water into its distribution system. On Thursday, Oct. 13, Flint’s water supply returned to a mix of 95% water from GLWA and 5% from Genesee County. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221014-flint-water
