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The Northeast Wisconsin shipwreck of the Sidney O. Neff was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7 following its listing on the State Register of Historic Places in September. The Wisconsin Historical Society says the wreck allows historians and archaeologists to study the construction of early converted wooden steambarges in the Great Lakes lumber trade. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-historic-shipwreck

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In St. Joseph, Michigan, the US Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract to King Company of Holland, Michigan to dredge the St Joseph Harbor of debris in the water that has severely limited traffic over the last five weeks. Due to bad weather causing rough waves and high winds, it could take even longer for the harbor to be fully operational again. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-dredging-delay

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An analysis released by a coalition of activists and conservation groups in Michigan finds that high water rates force many families to live in unsafe conditions, putting elders and children at risk. The report proposes that state officials adopt a water-affordability strategy that supports low-income Michiganders and does not harm residents who can afford their utilities. Read the full story by WSJM – Benton Harbor, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-water-affordability

James Polidori

Energy storage is a priority for several Great Lakes states including Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. By using iron, salt, and water, the Great Lakes region can create a green energy future with the technology of iron-flow batteries. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-energy-storage

James Polidori

In 1972, the same year the Clean Water Act was passed, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point created the Water and Environmental Analysis Lab (WEAL). Over its 50 years, communities, student employees and hundreds of thousands of residents have benefited from its water testing programs, educational outreach and five decades of data collected from groundwater sources across the state and the nation. Read the full story by Point/Plover Metro Wire.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-water-lab-anniversary

James Polidori

After more than 100 years of industrial use and environmental contamination, a new, cleaner life is in the future for Grand Haven’s Harbor Island – but it will take at least six years to get there. Before redevelopment can occur, a massive effort to clean up contamination must be mounted. Read the full story by MLive.com.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-contamination-cleanup

James Polidori

The Wisconsin DNR reminds anglers that the opening of Lake Superior’s lake trout season is December 1, running until September 30, or until the harvest cap is met. Anyone looking to harvest lake trout must purchase a Great Lakes trout and salmon stamp in addition to their fishing license. Read the full story by WEAU-TV – Eau Claire, WI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221202-trout-season

James Polidori

In Lake Erie’s western basin, toxic algal blooms lasted into November for the first time in the past 20 years of data gathering. Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are analyzing the impacts of weather conditions and the species of algae on the bloom’s extended stay. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-algae-conditions

James Polidori

In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, to stop dumping dangerous coal ash into unlined storage ponds and speed cleanup of the site. This marks the first time the EPA has formally denied a utility’s request to continue disposing toxic coal ash after a deadline to stop such disposal has passed. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-coal-ash-order

James Polidori

In Lisbon, New York, the Eel Protection Study, a five-month study that investigates the use of light to guide adult American eel through hydroelectric power stations, aims to guide, collect, and transport the eel during its migration from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. Read the full story by Seaway News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-eel-protection

James Polidori

Angelica Vazquez-Ortega, a Bowling Green State University geochemist, obtained more than $1 million in grants to study the effects of using dredged lake sediment from Lake Erie as a farm soil amendment to mitigate nutrient overflow into the lake. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-sediment-fertilizer

James Polidori

A new report led by St. Paul, Minnesota-based Freshwater Society reveals how groundwater is governed and serves as a reference for water policy and resource professionals to build future policy work. The authors conclude that the current structures, cobbled together over decades in response to different kinds of stressors and crises, does not adequately provide for a sustainable and equitable groundwater management for the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions. Read the full story by The Waynedale News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-groundwater-governance

James Polidori

The Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort, a watchdog group, has tracked a particular bird that has foregone its migration to Michigan to forage in Florida over the past several breeding seasons. Even though this bird has apparently taken herself out of the nesting business, 150 piping plover chicks were fledged in the wild at dozens of nesting sites along the Great Lakes shoreline – a huge step in the numbers game for this small bird. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-piping-plover-migration

James Polidori

On November 26, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw will travel from Cheboygan, Michigan, to Chicago with its annual shipment of 1,200 Christmas trees to deliver holiday cheer to families in need. This is the 23rd year of carrying on the tradition of the schooner Rouse Simmons, which sank in Lake Michigan in 1912 with a cargo full of Christmas trees. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-christmas-ship

James Polidori

COMMENTARY: In the St. Clair River, northern madtoms are one of the species that helps researchers gauge the overall health of the river and its inhabitants as they eat some of the tiniest organisms in the system, which are also some of the most sensitive and vulnerable to pollutants. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-catfish-indicator

James Polidori