The proposal to build a cruise ship dock in Holland, Michigan could put it at odds with Muskegon, which, just 31 miles north, has its own dock for cruise ships in Lake Michigan. But Holland City Manager Keith Van Beek said he doesn’t expect a Holland cruise ship dock would take business from Muskegon. Read the full story by MLive.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202202011-dock
The Great Lakes Commission launched a new website to track progress on important environmental issues, including dealing with harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-website
The ice near a Great Lake’s shoreline might look safe. Satellite images show why it’s very dangerous. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-ice
In a weekly Great Lakes water level update from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lake Ontario outflows through the St. Lawrence River were confirmed to be above average and are expected to remain high. Read the full story by WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-outflows
Those fishing in the Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron may have noticed a lack of perch on their fishing lines. According to the Michigan DNR, the reason why lies in an effort to increase the walleye population in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Huron Daily Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-perch
Almost fifty years after a Lake Huron storm washed away a portion of Old Lakeshore Road, Sarnia, Ontario, is taking action to re-establish ownership of the right-of-way for public use and reconnect to existing lakefront trails. Read the full story by The Sarnia Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-shoreline-
A large amount of plastic—the equivalent of about 3,400 plastic water bottles in volume—were found in Lake Ontario during a four-month period last year by a Toronto “Trash Team”. Read the full story by CTV News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-trash-team
Millions of federal dollars from the Infrastructure and Jobs Act are going towards shoring up and improving the infrastructure of the Port of Duluth-Superior. Read the full story by KQDS-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-infrastructure-funding-
Photos and videos captured from around Lake Michigan highlight a strange the frozen phenomenon of “ice volcanoes”. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-volcanoes
The Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie has created a task force to analyze the potential opportunity, consult with the public and develop a competitive bid to host the federal agency. Read the full story by The Sault Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-canada-water-agency
Starting on Feb. 9, the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario, will be open and conducting tours to share maritime heritage of the Great Lakes once again. Read the full story by the Global News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220209-museum-
Great Lakes ice extent reached 44.4% on February 5th, the highest extent this winter and very close to the maximum ice extent of the winter of 2020-21, which was 45.8%. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-ice-coverage
A series of earthquakes continue to shake Lake Erie just northeast of Cleveland, Ohio, generating dozens of reports by local residents. In the last 40 days, there have been 5 earthquakes of magnitude 1.6 to 2.5, all clustered just off-shore in the southeastern portion of the Great Lake. Read the full story by Weatherboy.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-earthquakes
Concerns over ice coverage and a previous study by researchers from Ohio State University published several years ago could suggest Lake Erie yellow perch hatches are more robust after winters that produce longer and later periods of ice cover. Read the full story by The Columbus Dispatch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-yellow-perch
Michigan’s Selfridge Air National Guard Base is taking steps to reduce the levels of “forever chemicals” used in firefighting. Selfridge, has been found to be among at least six U.S. military sites in the Great Lakes region contaminated with high levels of toxic PFAS detected as high as 17,000 ppt last year. Read the full story by Macomb Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-pfas
Historic images from southeast Michigan’s River Raisin show the complications of ice jams and bridge design over 100-year frequency floods. Read the full story by The Monroe News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-ice-jams
In their latest forecast the Army Corps of Engineers hydrologists report that most of the Great Lakes will remain above their long-term average water levels in the coming months but won’t reach the record highs of recent years. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-water-levels
Interlake Maritime Services, through its new subsidiary, Soo Maritime Services, will now oversee operations of the tour boats Hiawatha, Bide-A-Wee and Holiday that have provided river and lock tours in the Upper Peninsula for more than six decades. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-soo-locks
Lake sturgeon have called the Great Lakes home for 10,000 years but now is a threatened species in many parts. Efforts have been made in the past year that raise hope of a new beginning, but what caused its decline in the first place? Read the full story by Campus Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-sturgeon
The Coast Guard reported personnel in a helicopter saw the group of around 18 people and several ATVs on an ice floe around 1 p.m. Sunday. The ice floe had separated from land near Catawba Island in Lake Erie, which is slightly southwest of Pelee Island. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-ice-floe
After nesting in spring and early summer in the North America’s Great Plains, many canvasback ducks migrate in fall to overwintering grounds on Lake St. Clair, Detroit River and Lake Erie. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220207-ducks
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on sewage treatment and sewer system improvements, habitat restoration, among other things. But the results have been generally disappointing, especially when it comes to fish recovery. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-hamilton-harbor
A Michigan’s city’s winter festival has been postponed because of too much winter. Due to the inclement weather, St. Joseph has postponed its 2022 Ice Fest until Feb. 25-27. The annual festival had been scheduled for this weekend. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-winter-fest
The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority awarded just over $180 million in the second half of 2021 to 26 Minnesota cities to improve water service and protect waterways. This funding resulting in a total of $193 million invested in Minnesota’s water ways during those six months. Read the full story by Red Lake Nation News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-facilities
Many of nearly 300 people who attended a 10-hour-long virtual public hearing spoke out against a $450 million plan to reroute an oil and gas pipeline across northern Wisconsin. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-pipeline
Northern Michigan University is working with the state to bring the Arctic grayling back to Michigan with research focused on finding the best in-stream incubators for the native fish. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-grayling
A big increase in cruise ships docking at Port Milwaukee is bringing around $6 million in improvements to help accommodate that traffic. And a major piece of that funding will be a $3.5 million grant to help expand maritime infrastructure for larger cruise ships. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-cruise
Lafarge and the City of Alpena, Michigan will receive $3.7 million as one of 25 grantees of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s port infrastructure development grants, awarded at the end of 2021. The investments in the Alpena port, and others across the nation, will strengthen supply chains and speed up delivery of goods to residents. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-lafarge-port
An animation from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) shows the growing ice coverage from Dec. 3 when there was almost no ice to Jan. 31 when the five lakes were 40% frozen over. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-ice-coverage
In order to learn more about what happens under the ice, crews from more than a dozen U.S. and Canadian universities and government agencies will make their way onto frozen sections of lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior during the week of Feb. 14. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220204-winter
Minnesota regulators are hoping to reduce possible human, wild animal and pet waste that spurs E. coli outbreaks, as five Duluth waterfront areas are being targeted for bacteria reduction. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-bacteria-
Five members of Congress have signed a letter urging the Navy to increase its shipyard capacity, and to pick Ohio as the place to do it. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-shipyard
Three species of Michigan birds will be the subject of free webinars hosted by Audubon Great Lakes and MI Birds in the coming weeks, including a webinar on Great Lakes piping plover recovery efforts. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-webinar
A water rescue expert from the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project warns about ice and ice shelves on Lake Michigan, as water underneath can make the icy areas unstable. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-ice
On a cold Sunday afternoon at Grand Haven State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan, the noise of crackling could be heard as ice shards began stacking and piling up on the shore. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-ice-shards
As ice coverage across the Great Lakes expands with colder weather, the deepest freeze is likely still to come, which can reveal a lot about what is to be expected regarding lake levels, fish health, and algae blooms in the warmer months. Read the full story by the Harbor Light.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-ice-cover
In Michigan, the Marquette City Commission authorized the submission of a grant application to the U.S. Economic Development Administration to fund the creation of eight miles of trails along Lake Superior shoreline and install green infrastructure to stabilize erosion sites. Read the full story by WNMU – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-trail
The Ontario Government is investing $1,698,792 million in three Hastings-Lennox and Addington communities to build, upgrade and rehabilitate storm and wastewater infrastructure to protect the Bay of Quinte and eastern Lake Ontario. Read the full story by the Kingstonist.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-wastewater-
It has been confirmed with officials from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission that the Brig Niagara, Pennsylvania’s Flagship, will sail the Great Lakes again this summer. Read the full story by WICU-TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220202-niagara
A collection of more than 150 Great Lakes shipping models are now in display at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit, Michigan through May 8. Read the full story by WJBK- TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-ships
Wisconsin Sea Grant, in partnership with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, is hosting an online book club designed to give parents and teachers tools to introduce young readers to Ojibwe culture and environmental stewardship. Read and hear the full story by WXPR – Rhinelander, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-education
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projects the lake to be 52.3% covered by ice at its peak, with a long-term average of 62.3%. Lake Superior ice cover was roughly 12% late last week, compared to a long-term average of 20%. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-superior
The Medina County Park District is expanding the Black River Nature Preserve in the Lodi, Ohio area. Read the full story by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-restoration
The International Lake Ontario- St. Lawrence River Board has confirmed that outflows on Lake Ontario in January were found to be the fourth highest on record since 1990. This is following records set in 2020, 2021 and 1987. Read the full story by WWTI- TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-ontario
Cruise ships will visit Muskegon, Michigan again this summer, after stops were canceled for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-cruise-ships
There’s a new proposal gaining support in Washington D.C. for a potential multi-billion-dollar investment that would bring U.S. naval facilities to Lorain and Lordstown, Ohio. Read the full story by WJW – TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-naval-ships
Mayor Bill Mauro is making a case for Thunder Bay, Ontario to host a new Canadian federal agency designed to put greater focus on protecting and managing Canada’s water resources. Read and listen to the full story by the Thunder Bay News Watch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-thunder-bay
Water scarcity is occurring in some of the United States’ biggest freshwater reserves, according to a new study. Not only is the crisis evident in the U.S. but also to other parts of the world. Read the full story by Nature World News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-water-shortage
A bill before the Michigan Legislature would allocate $2.4 billion dollars in federal funds for repairs to the state’s aging water infrastructure. Read the full story by 95.3 MNC Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-infrastructure
The annual Birds on the Niagara (BON22) festival will celebrate migrating birds of the area from February 10th – February 13th in Buffalo, New York. Read the full story by Buffalo Rising.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-bird-festival
