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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.

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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.

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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.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-ontario-workshops

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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.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-water-safety

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Chelsea Rochman, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto, co-authored a paper with other researchers published in the journal Science last September which estimates that between 24 and 34 million metric tonnes of plastic was released into the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers in 2020. Read the full story by Global News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210910-plastics

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention, which commits countries to the conservation and “wise use” of wetlands, list and manage special sites called Wetlands of International Importance, and cooperate on transboundary wetlands and species. There are currently 2,429 Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance covering more than 983,000 acres in over 170 countries. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-wetlands

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Canada is moving ahead with its first ever national adaptation strategy, the government aims to consult with Indigenous groups, youth and environmental organizations to create a framework for actions that businesses, governments and individuals can take to ensure the resilience of their communities. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-climate-canada

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Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and congressional allies urged President Joe Biden on Friday to stop construction on Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement, even as the project nears completion and the options to stop it dwindle. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-line-3

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In 2018, a research team from University of Western Ontario examined 66 beaches in each Great Lakes state and Ontario, and found resin pellets used in manufacturing known as “nurdle pellets,” at an average of 19 pellets per square meter. The heaviest concentration site had more than 7,200 pellets found in the top two inches of sand along the high water mark. Read the full story by MLive.

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Invasive New Zealand mudsnails have been detected in a Michigan creek, the sixth known infestation in Michigan in recent years. The Michigan DNR said the mudsnails were found at the mouth of Shanty Creek, a tributary of the Grass River in Antrim County during routine monitoring in May and confirmed through DNA analysis in August. Read the full story by WDIV-TV –  Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-invasive-species

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Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians’ fish $2.5 million hatchery’s primary objective is to help native Great Lakes species. In 2021, the hatchery’s goal is to raise and release approximately 500,000 whitefish, 1,000 sturgeon and up to 60,000 walleye. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-hatchery-fish

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A $750,000 grant has been awarded to the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office to fund the Resilient Lakeshore Heritage Program, which helps preserve historic places as a part of rehabilitation projects in communities that participate in the Certified Local Government program, the Michigan Main Street program, or the Redevelopment Ready Communities program. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Saginaw, MI.

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In 1911, a 211-foot freighter named the Muskegon sank where the fire-scorched hulk was abandoned, now there’s an effort to make it Indiana’s second underwater nature preserve. If approved, this would protect the site for “exceptional” scuba diving according to Indiana University’s Center for Underwater Science. Read the full story by South Bend Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-shipwreck-preserve

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Water levels in the Lake Michigan-Huron basin are midway between the seasonal long-term average and the record high water levels set last year. Water levels typically fall in September, and this month could decline by 5.9 inches, depending on weather and water supply conditions. Read the full story by Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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An upwelling event brought debris to a 25 mile stretch of shoreline from Eastlake to Perry, OH. Fortunately the impact from the anaerobic conditions, had minimal effect to walleye and perch despite the less than enjoyable view and smell. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210908-erie-fish

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Theodore TOO, an iconic tugboat that spent the past 21 years in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been traveling around the Great Lakes promoting the protection of waterways and the connections between all sorts of bodies of water as it prepares to port at its new residence, in Hamilton, Ontario. Read the full story by WDIV-TV –  Detroit, MI.

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The St. Lawrence River’s muskellunge fisheries has been declining for more than a decade. A recent die off of adult fish due to viral hemorrhagic septicemia and few juveniles being found in spawning grounds have managers concerned over future population trends. Read the full story by Upstate New York.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210903-muskie-decline

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A fight is brewing in northern Wisconsin over a proposal to bottle and sell water from a well near Lake Superior. Opponents of the plan fear allowing the business to move forward would exploit a loophole in a landmark agreement barring water diversions from the Great Lakes — and could threaten water resources in the region. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210903-bottled-water

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The Valley View Area of Cascade Valley Metro Park in Akron, Ohio, recently celebrated its opening after Summit Metro Parks invested $6 million in grant funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to restore the former golf course property to a more natural area. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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A sinkhole on the floor of Lake Huron, a few miles off the Alpena, Michigan, coast and 100 feet down, is being used by researchers to test theories about what conditions kickstarted an evolution of biology on Earth’s surface 4 billion years ago. Read the full story by WJBK-TV – Detroit.

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A strong odor noticed throughout Lake County, Ohio, on Thursday is coming from Lake Erie, officials from three communities said, and indicated that the smell is caused by sediment churning at the bottom of Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210903-lake-erie

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The International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board announced that it is continuing to assess water level conditions on the St. Lawrence River for potential boat haul out assistance. In recent years, high and low water level conditions have made it challenging for recreational boaters to remove their vessels from the water. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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A Chicago nonprofit, Current, installed three sensors in the Chicago River’s three main branches in 2019 to continuously estimate the amount of bacteria from human and other warm-blooded animals’ waste and provide recreational users of the river with real-time reports of this water quality measure. Read the full story by The Washington Post.

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High levels of toxic, widely used “forever chemicals” contaminate groundwater around at least six military sites in the Great Lakes region, according to U.S. Department of Defense records that an environmental group released Tuesday. Read the full story by the Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210901-pfas

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In a weekly forecast, the Army Corps of Engineers released a water level update for all of the Great Lakes and their outflow channels. This detailed below-average water levels for most of the lakes and predictions for the next month. Read the full story by WWTI – Watertown, NY.

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A federal judge on Monday tossed out a Trump-era rule that rolled back water pollution protections but is still weighing whether to restore Obama-era protections or simply undo the Trump rollback to return to pre-Obama regulations. Read the full story by The Hill.

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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRM) is accepting grant applications for federal fiscal year 2022 beginning Monday, August 30 until 4 p.m. on Monday, October 18. Read the full story by WJET -TV- Erie, PA.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210901-erie-projects

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Michigan state conservation officials say boaters, anglers, and hunters are spreading an invasive aquatic plant. The European frog-bit has been messing up Lake Erie and Michigan coastal areas and inland lakes in the central Lower Peninsula for almost 30 years, but its now popping up in new areas. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210830-frogbit

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More toxic lead pipes than any other region of the country. An unmatched legacy of abandoned, highly polluted industrial sites. Dozens of corporations chronically in trouble for poisoning air and water. All of these maladies face whomever President Joe Biden picks to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees Illinois, five other Midwestern states and the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210830-epa

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In Michigan, locals prevailed in an impassioned effort to save a local beach and dunes from development, fueled by a large state grant and more than 800 donors. Cherry Beach grew from a tiny 253 feet of Lake Michigan shoreline to 657 feet, a 404-foot expansion onto sand that locals had already been using for a century. Read the full story by the South Bend Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210830-cherry

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Dubbed the Marysburgh Vortex, or alternatively “The Graveyard of Lake Ontario,” a small stretch of water off the shores of Ontario’s Prince Edward County has for centuries played host to shipwrecks, airplane mishaps, strange sightings and mysterious disappearances. Read the full story by Global News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210830-vortex

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Much of the history regarding the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald surrounds what was lost, but there is an important item that was found — and it’s now on full display. In the summer of 1995, months before the 20th anniversary of the ship’s sinking in November 1975, a mission was started to recover the bell on the Edmund Fitzgerald. Read the full story by KSAT-TV- Paradise, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210827-fitzgerald

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The proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary has been in the planning stages for years and would include hundreds of square miles of Lake Ontario off Cayuga, New York. As officials continue narrowing options for a possible marine sanctuary, a series of public information sessions has been scheduled. Read the full story by The Citizen.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210827-sanctuary-ontario

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