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
As a part of a water trail network called the Great Lakes Way, officials in Michigan and Canada signed a memorandum of understanding last week to connect pedestrian trails on either side of the border of a new bridge over the Detroit River. The bridge is scheduled to open by the end of 2024. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-international-path
Michigan legislators in 2021 approved a five-year, $25 million budget for the state Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to target farms in five 20,000-acre sub-watersheds in southeast Michigan for intensive analysis of nutrient runoff. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-nutrient-runoff
A resolution for flooding at Sheba’s Island causeway and general improvement and protection are the focus areas for the West Lake Community Association, located East of Toronto along Lake Ontario, to help sustaining a healthy lake and wetlands. Read the full story by County Live.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-community-wetland
Federal officials announced plans this week to list the tricolored bat as endangered, the second U.S. bat species recommended for the designation this year as a fungal disease ravages their populations. The northern long-eared and the tricolored are among a dozen North American bats afflicted by white-nose syndrome, which disrupts their crucial winter hibernation. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-bats
After 25 years of discussions, the Port of Oswego Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have agreed to fund and conduct a study to deepen Oswego Harbor in Lake Ontario. Once complete, Seawaymax Class freighters, the largest to travel the Great Lakes, U.S. Navy ships and Great Lakes cruise ships could use the Port of Oswego. Read the full story by Spectrum News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-harbor
It has been more than two years since the collapse of the Sanford and Edenville Dams in mid-Michigan, which drained the lakes the dams once held back. While the lakes have remained dry, the beds of the drained lakes are now teeming with vegetation. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Sanford, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-dams
As Great Lakes cruising picks up, the town of Bayfield, Wisconsin, weighs the pros and cons of more ships and their impact on the town and the environment. Read the full story by The New York Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-cruising
The public is invited to tour the sturgeon passage facility at the Menominee Dam in Menominee, Wisconsin, on Sept. 20. Attendees will learn how Lake Michigan’s sturgeon population can now navigate around two hydroelectric dams on the Menominee River to spawn. Read the full story by the EagleHerald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-sturgeon
Nearly a dozen waterspouts have been spotted over Lake Erie and Lake Michigan this past week. Several Northeast Ohio residents witnessed the phenomenon, as at least one waterspout was seen over Lake Erie west of Cleveland. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220914-waterspout
The death of an English monarch portends the crowning of another and that means giving King Charles III the gift of a pie filled with Michigan flavor. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-mi-lampreypie-england
Anglers on McKinley Pier in Milwaukee, WI this week were treated to a succession of evenings with the bright orb rising through clear skies over Lake Michigan. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-chinooksalmon-lakemichigan
Saturday marked the end of the sailing season for the U.S. Brig Niagara. Forty daysail students participated in a trip around the Bayfront and out to the lake for an educational program. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-usbrig-niagara
A replica of a historic tall ship is sailing down the St. Lawrence River this week, on its way to the Atlantic Ocean and then down the east coast. The square-rigged Nao Trinidad was built in Spain in 2018. Read and listen to the full story by North Country Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-tallship-trinidad
Once upon a time, there was a small town in Ontario that was named the “prettiest” in Canada by none other than Queen Elizabeth II. With clear blue skies, stunning landscapes and multiple beaches, there’s no surprise here that this town has left many, especially royalty, in awe. Read the full story by Curiocity.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-ontario-queenelizabeth
Short of an order to decommission the Line 5 pipeline, an Ojibwe tribe on the south shore of Lake Superior has secured a different legal victory in its federal lawsuit against Canadian pipeline company Enbridge. Read the full story by the Wisconsin Examiner.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-linefive-enbridgelawsuit
Great Lakes shipbuilding and repair giant Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding broke ground on a new 19,000 sq. ft. machine shop at their Sturgeon Bay, WI location today. Inside the future 300-ft. long building, shipbuilders will have access to two overhead cranes capable of lifting 5 and 30 tons. At the other end of the building there will be offices, restrooms, a lunchroom and a tool room. The facility will primarily support Bay’s repair business. Read the full story by Marine Insight.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-shipbuilding-newfacility
COMMENTARY – Erieites might gripe about the harsh winters that we experience but compared to all of the horrible weather affecting much of the nation, we have it pretty good. Read the full story by Erie-Times News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-eriesclimate
On September 18, join Save the Dunes as they celebrate the journey and migration of the Monarch butterfly through our region with music and food at Michigan City’s Brewery Lodge & Supper Club. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Save the Dunes’ work to protect and advocate for the Indiana dunes. Read the full story by WBND-LD-TV – South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-monarchs-savethedunes
Rep. Marcus Evans has introduced a bill that lays the groundwork for a proposed wind farm in Lake Michigan, about 10 miles from the shores of the Southeast Side. The bill sets up a fund that would help the state to compete for federal money, including $230 million for port infrastructure projects available from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Read the full story by Archinect News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220912-offshore-windfarm-greatlakes
