Early last year, the state of Wisconsin issued a fish consumption advisory that recommended eating no more than one meal a month of Lake Superior rainbow smelt, caught by tribes and local anglers during smelt runs in the spring. Read the full story by The Washington Post Magazine.
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Several ships will soon be making their way into Erie, Pennsylvania’s Presque Isle Bay for repairs. Read the full story by Erie Times-News
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Next month one of Michigan’s most anticipated fishing seasons is scheduled to return for four days — though it very well may wrap up in a matter of hours. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-black-lake
Rochman Laboratory at the University of Toronto and Georgian Bay Forever conducted a study with households adding a filter to the outflow of water from their washing machines and measured the amount of microfibres in the town’s wastewater treatment plant. With approximately 10 per cent of town homes fitted with a filter, the team saw a large decrease in microfibres. Read the full story by Parry Sound North Star.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-microfiber-plastic
Researchers in Ontario have discovered 6PPD-quinone – which has been found to harm populations of fish – in two Toronto waterways, the Don River and Highland Creek, both of which empty into Lake Ontario. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-pollution
During the Ice Age, much of Canada and the northern United States were covered with a massive ice sheet. As this began to melt, Lake Agassiz formed from the meltwater forming an immense proglacial lake. Read the full story by The Travel.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-lakes
In July 2020, province of Ontario released a Sustainable Bait Management Strategy, which describes the new approach to managing baitfish and leeches to reduce the ecological risks associated with the use and movement of bait. Read the full story by Orillia Matters.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-bait
Minnesota county crews are installing 28 new boat-cleaning stations on lakes infested with starry stonewort in an effort to prevent the spread of the invasive species. Read the full story by Star Tribune.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-starry-stonewort
Ohio’s Democratic congressional delegation is excited to watch billions of dollars in infrastructure funding come to the state, but where that funding goes now depends on local efforts. Read the full story by Ohio Capital Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-infrastructure
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was not able to carry out dredging for Sandusky’s harbor in 2021 as it was lacking a place that could legally accept dredged material. However, the Corps is on track to resume dredging this year by using dredged material to build a new wetland. Read the full story by Sandusky Register.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-sandusky
Among other things, deer are jeopardizing efforts to restore the Lake Erie Sand Spit Savannah, a globally rare ecosystem that supports 25% of the species at risk in the park. Read the full story in the Windsor Star.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-deer
For close to four decades, U.S. Coast Guard motor lifeboat 40300 was on duty in Lake Michigan and later, in the Eastern Upper Peninsula. Now at 81, is among the most recent properties added to the National Register of Historic Places, based on its importance in maritime engineering and maritime history. Read the full story by Capital News Service.
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Built on the shores of Presque Isle, the original U.S. Brig Niagara played a major role in defeating the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220110-ship
As part of the H2Ohio Initiative, the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge has partnered with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ottawa County Soil and Water Conservation District on a project aiming to allow around 580 acres of wetlands in the western Lake Erie basin. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-wetlands
A tiny bug, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, is sucking the life out of the evergreens up and down Michigan’s west coast. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-hemlock-pest
The Michigan state House is expected to take up a $3.3 billion water infrastructure bill which passed the Senate in December. The money would help upgrade drinking water and wastewater utility systems, replace lead pipes, remediate toxic sites, protect private well owners from contaminants, replace failing septic system, and install filtration in schools. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-water-woes
Michigan regulators have fined an Ohio-based paper company nearly $250,000 following a wastewater mishap that caused an Escanaba River fish kill. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-paper-mill
An oil and gas expert warned Michigan utility regulators not only would a tunnel for the Line 5 pipeline not be a failsafe replacement for the underwater section of the line, but possible accidents could cause a catastrophic underground explosion. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-pipeline-risk
The Army Corps of Engineers analysis of the lake level data suggest there’s a 13% chance of water levels on Lake Ontario reaching 247.70 feet, also known as the threshold for still water flooding along the south shore. Read the full story by WKRG-TV.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-spring-flooding
More than $5 million in funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has helped restore and protect the 13.5-acre marsh habitat in western New York and now the purple martin bird has returned. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Grand Island, NY.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-purple-martins
The new ordinance calls for a civil infraction and fine to be issued to people who enter closed areas of the beach or pier. Based on feedback from the city council at the Dec. 20 meeting, the fine for violating the ordinance has been set at $1,000 per occurrence. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-pier-rules
For the second time this week the earth moved under Lake Erie in Lake County, Ohio causing a small earthquake. Read the full story by the Akron Beacon Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-earthquake
Surfers from around Minnesota were braving the cold to take advantage of the best surfing conditions in years. Read the full story by MPR News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220107-surfers
As climate change shows signs of altering the lakes’ ice cover, water temperatures, water levels and shorelines, experts are pushing plans to deploy more so-called smart technologies to monitor these changes. Read the full story by WBEZ-TV – Chicago, IL.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-smart-technologies
The state of Michigan has released an adaptive management plan to improve the water quality in Lake Erie in an effort to reduce the number of harmful algal blooms, but environmental groups worry the plan is flawed. Read the full story by the Daily Telegram.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-lake-erie
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking for feedback on the environmental impact of the soon-to-be re-routed Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline through the northernmost part of the state. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-enbridge
Bob Ragotzkie served as Wisconsin Sea Grant’s first director and was instrumental in bringing the program to life in the Great Lakes. Bob’s legacy is now being celebrated as Wisconsin Sea Grant celebrates its 50th anniversary. Read the full story by WUWM-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-sea-grant-
For the second time this week the earth moved under Lake Erie near Timberlake in Lake County, Ohio. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, both quakes took place about three miles below the surface of Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Akron Beacon Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-quake
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie commenced Operation Taconite to prevent newly formed ice from hampering commercial shipping across the western Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Sault News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-ice-breaking
The village of shanties along the Leland River on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula has endured for over 100 years. But surging Great Lakes water levels have increased flooding of the Leland River, prompting a $3.4 million effort to raise the foundations of the dozen shanties in Fishtown, Michigan. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-fishtown
The Great Lakes hold about one-fifth of the Earth’s fresh water, but a new report by Hilary Dugan, an assistant professor in the Center for Limnology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicates they’re getting saltier – and says that’s reason for concern. Read they full story by WXPR – Rhinelander, WI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-salt
The Great Lakes Water Authority in Detroit, using its Water and Field Services teams in partnership with LimnoTech and the University of Windsor, has deployed the first buoy to the Detroit River in an effort to enhance water quality monitoring of its source water. Read the full story by DBusiness.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-buoy
Great Lakes ports are reporting a rebound in cargo shipments this year after the region’s largest port witnessed historic lows during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-shipping
As climate change shows signs of altering the lakes’ ice cover, water temperatures, water levels and shorelines, experts are pushing plans to deploy more so-called smart technologies to monitor these changes. Read the full story by WBEZ-TV – Chicago, IL.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220105-smart-technology
Road salt is threatening the Great Lakes’ fresh waters and creating even bigger problems for the inland rivers, lakes, and aquifers. But decades of experiments have yet to yield an alternative anywhere near as effective and affordable. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220103-salt
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Cities from Milwaukee to Green Bay and small communities in Door County must confront erosion — a key portion of climate impacts that Wisconsin’s shoreline communities expect to cost at least $245 million over the next five years. Read the full story by the Sheboygan Press.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211222-shoreline
Officials on two Lake Huron islands denied Enbridge permission to install cameras to keep tabs on shipping traffic through the Straits of Mackinac and across the path of its underwater Line 5 dual pipelines – in one case at least partly because of controversy surrounding the company itself. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211222-line5-camera
An intertribal agency says Wisconsin’s draft environmental review for a planned reroute of an oil and gas pipeline across northern Wisconsin is incomplete and flawed. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211222-line5
The United States Coast Guard cutter Katmai Bay has been called upon to break up ice on Lake Superior ice in order to allow commercial traffic to safely navigate in and out of the Thunder Bay, Ontario, area. Read the full story by Thunder Bay News Watch.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211222-icebreaker
Unless it’s, say, the Titanic, shipwrecks don’t often make it into commonplace lore. But one 109-year-old wreck deep in Lake Michigan’s chilly waters has wedged itself into the fabric of the Great Lakes, inspiring plays, stories, art, and even songs about its demise. And understandably so. Read the full story by Thrillist.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211222-shipwreck
Strong winds on Lake Erie create waves up to eight feet tall that crash onto the beaches of Presque Isle State Park, located four miles west of Erie, Pennsylvania. Surfers flock to the park when the waves form, even if the temperature is below freezing and the wind chill is below zero. Read the full story by The Washington Post.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211222-surfing
