A proposed solar canopy array in the parking lot will help Presque Isle State Park reach net-zero energy consumption. Read the full story by the Erie Times-News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210922-solar-panels
A meeting to discuss coastal resiliency is planned for this week in in a southwest Michigan township. The township has received a grant from the Land Information Access Association to help it update its master plan with coastal resiliency in mind. Read the full story by WSJM – St. Joseph, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210922-coastal-resiliency
Waves as high as 20 feet could be possible on the Great Lakes and flooding occurring in parts of southeast Michigan as a multi-day storm system settles into the region, according to the National Weather Service. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210922-waves-and-flooding
Tens of millions of fish from the Great Lakes are caught annually and most of them meet the same culinary fate becoming fried filets. However, groups and individuals around the region have recently been working on projects aiming to encourage this culinary path and expand the scope of Great Lakes fish and wild game consumption. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210922-fish-fry
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was present for a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off a project that will restore more than 100 acres of wetlands by connecting Powderhorn Lake to Wolf Lake in the southeast area of Chicago, Illinois. Read and view the full story by WBBM-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-restoration
Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-enbridge
According to the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership, the Seaway system handled over 20 million metric tons of cargo from the opening of the Seaway on March 22 through August 31. Read the full story by WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-seaway
Previous research and current study find troubling trends for the freshwater fish of Minnesota and elsewhere, owing in part to the impact of global warming caused by climate change. Read and hear the full story by The Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-fish-trends
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on Friday appointed a new clean water public advocate. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-clean-water
A decade ago, a blue-green algae bloom had never been reported on Lake Superior. Now, half a dozen blue-green algae blooms have been reported this summer across Lake Superior, including one that formed recently in Superior. Read and hear the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-algae
A major voice has chimed in regarding the potential placement of wind turbines in Lake Erie. During its September meeting, the New York State Conservation Council went on record as calling for a “permanent moratorium on offshore industrial wind turbine development in any Great Lakes waters.”. Read the full story by the Observer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-turbines
Most of the Great Lakes continue to have declining water levels from the record-high levels over the past few years. The water level decline of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron has been the most amazing. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-water-loss
A native of Quincy, Illinois says he has created a solution that takes Asian carp and turns them into a liquid fertilizer at his facility in Pearl, Illinois. Read and view the full story by WGEM -TV- Quincy, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-carp
The North Country Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (NCCISMA) in Cadillac, Michigan has created a series of educational videos on how to control invasive species. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210920-invasives
In Illinois, a group of conservationists, officials and community members will gather this weekend to mark the groundbreaking for the eventual restoration of Powderhorn Lake, which will be connected to Wolf Lake, creating a link extending all the way to Lake Michigan. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-powderhorn
A $1.3 million shoreline restoration project aimed at improving wildlife habitat and public access in Chesterfield Township, Michigan, is officially complete. Read the full story by The Voice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-chesterfield
The water-rich Great Lakes region may have cooler temperatures and sit high above sea level. But it can’t be a refuge for anyone if it doesn’t take action now to adapt to its own changing climate. Read the full story by Bloomberg CityLab.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-climatehaven
In Flint, Michigan, the city’s plan to blend an increased amount of water from Genesee County with its primary supply from the Great Lakes Water Authority has been postponed because of repairs needed due to settling of a newly constructed connector line to the county system. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-flint
Canada wants to store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin, but a Michigan congressman is looking to stop it. Read the full story by Mid-Michigan Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-nuclear
In Michigan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to Schlotz Creek, located in the community of Oskar, in Stanton Township, to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom. Read the full story by the Daily Mining Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-lamprey
Michigan Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Eichinger will sign an order that will ban swimming on days with hazardous conditions at state parks in the near future. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-redflag
In Indiana, Save the Dunes and the Town of Long Beach have completed a project to restore the natural dune habitat and enhance public access to Stop 24, one of the town’s public dune and lakeshore access sites. Read the full story by WBND – South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210917-dunes
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters led a group of Senate Democrats in calling on party leadership to include funding for Great Lakes port infrastructure in an infrastructure bill. Democrats in Congress are hoping to pass a $3.5 trillion budget plan before the end of the year. Read the full story by The Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-infrastructure
Concerns are flaring over a pipeline that carries crude oil and natural gas from western Canada. Enbridge, a Canadian company, owns the 645-mile line constructed nearly 70 years ago. The line starts in Superior, WI and ends at the southernmost point of Lake Huron. Read the full story by National Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-enbridge-oil
The City of London, Ontario says residents in the city’s southeast end might notice a slight odor and discoloration to their tap water due to an “inversion” in parts of Lake Erie due to seasonal changes in temperature and sunlight. These cause different layers of water to mix in a way that provides challenges for the water treatment process. Read the full story by Global News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-water
An interim report commissioned by federal regulators indicated that the sudden loss of soil strength under saturated conditions most likely caused the static liquefaction failure of the Michigan Edenville and Sanford dams during steady rain in May 2020 to collapse last year. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-dam-collapse
As a part of Governor Whitmer’s $200 million proposed expansion of a state Clean Water Plan through the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is the removal lead service lines across the state, including in Benton Harbor, MI which has had six straight lead exceedances. Read the full story by Water & Wastes Digest.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-lead
After reports that the 2021 rice crop is about the worst the northern Great Lakes has ever seen, two University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Lake Trout Station scientists studied some of the impacts, which may be due to 5-6 years of unusually high water, competition with pond lilies which benefit from the longer growing seasons, and increases in swan and geese populations. Read the full story by WXPR-FM – Rhinelander, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-rice
Monarch butterflies make a stop in Cleveland Metroparks, usually near the Lake Erie shore at Wendy Park, to rest along their journey from Canada and the Northeastern U.S. to Mexico. Read the full story by WEWC-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-monarchs
For the past seven years, Lake Superior water levels have been considered high. Now, they are dropping back to their historical long-term average due to the recent drought. Read the full story by KBJR-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-lake-levels
The first, fully-electric road ferries to sail in North America are now on their way from Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania to Lake Ontario to begin operations. Ordered by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, the Amherst Islander II and Wolfe Islander IV, 68 and 98 metres in length respectively, represent a new generation of zero-emission large ferries. Read the full story by Ship Insight.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-ferries
A University of Regina professor led an international study published in the journal Nature that looks at the impact of warming waters on dissolved oxygen and algae prevalence. The study used lake data with longstanding records across the northern hemisphere, including two sites in Ontario. Read the full story by the Ontario Out of Doors.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210915-fish
The Great Lakes, which are receiving an estimated 22 million pounds (10,000 metric tons) of plastic debris annually from the U.S. and Canada are in need of a wide range of innovative solutions to tackle the plastic problem. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-plastic
For $350 million, rather than build a copy of the purpose-built Mackinaw, it may make more national security sense to procure a robust ocean-going icebreaker, able to serve beyond the Great Lakes, supporting the Coast Guard in increasingly contested Arctic and Antarctic waters. Read the full story by Forbes.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-icebreaker
According to the Ohio Department of Health’s BeachGuard, unsafe levels of microcystin were detected during routine testing recently for Lake Erie beach at Maumee Bay State Park, Ohio. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Oregon, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-maumee-bay
Lake Erie pollution is reducing tourism revenues and hurting businesses that depend on the lake for their livelihood. Read the full story by Crain’s Cleveland Business
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-lake-erie
The USS Cobia, a WWII submarine, is the highlight of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum and allows visitors to see an important piece of WWII Pacific fleet history right on Lake Michigan. Read the full story by CNET.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-submarine
Samples of a microbial mat at the bottom of a 75-foot-deep sinkhole off the north shore of Middle Island, near Rockport State Recreation Area in the waters of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron, answers a question scientists have asked for decades about the rise in Earth’s oxygen levels. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-sinkhole
As lake waters continue to warm through late summer and early fall, there’s been an explosive growth of blue-green algae found in areas such as western parts of Lake Erie. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-algal-bloom
A recent fish kill along a 25-mile stretch of Lake Erie from Cleveland east to Perry, Ohio, is being blamed on oxygen-depleted water being blown toward shore and suffocating those fish that could not escape. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-fish-kill
Scientists have long hypothesized that storms would have strong impacts on water temperature and water column mixing, however, a recent study found that wind and rainstorms do not cause major temperature changes in lakes. Read the full story by Sault Online.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-inlandlakes
On Monday, the container ship Peyton Lynn C, which loaded in Antwerp, Belgium, passed through the locks in Massena and Iroquois, Ontario, on her way upriver on the St. Lawrence heading for the Great Lakes. In her wake, her owners believe, may be a new era in regards to a shipping method for the international waterway. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210913-shipping
Fresh funds are being infused into the federal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, promising a lasting effect on the humans who rely on the great inland sea and the fish that will swim in its cleaner waters. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-funding
The St. Lawrence River community of Clayton, New York was visited on September 9 by University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability Associate Professor Dr. Andrew Gronewold. Dr. Gronewold visited the North Country to lead a discussion on findings from his research on water levels in the Great Lakes. Read and hear the full story by WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-water-levels
A collection of environmental and residential groups representing Benton Harbor, Michigan filed an emergency petition on Thursday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide safe drinking water after three straight years of tests that exceed allowable lead levels. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-benton-harbor
On Sept. 8, 1860, the PS Lady Elgin collided with the schooner Augusta, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 people, making it the deadliest shipwreck in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-shipwreck
In August, the average water levels on Lake Superior dropped less than an inch to 602.17 feet — matching its long-term average for the first time since April 2014. The lake was nearly a foot below water levels in August last year, falling 11 inches. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-superior
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) issued an order granting the City of Joliet a Lake Michigan Water Allocation Permit. This permit allows Joliet to begin using Lake Michigan water as its source of supply in 2030 and establishes annual allocation amounts through the year 2050. Read the full story by The Times Weekly.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-joliet
Residents, property owners, business owners, and all other interested parties are invited to join a virtual public workshop from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, that will focus on ways Lake Ontario shoreline communities in New York’s Cayuga and Oswego counties can work toward resilient approaches to shoreline management, land use, and development in light of extreme high and low water levels. Read the full story by The Citizen.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-ontario-workshops
Two more drownings in Lake Michigan over the Labor Day weekend bring 2021’s total to 77 drownings in the Great Lakes, as of Sept. 6. The data is collected by the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, which works to promote water safety awareness. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-water-safety
