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A diesel spill at the site of the new Aurora Medical Center under construction on South Taylor Drive released 1,800 gallons of diesel fuel into the environment, according to preliminary estimates from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Clean up of nearby waterways is expected to take multiple days. Read the full story by Sheboygan Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-pollution-spill

Patrick Canniff

U.S. Geological Survey and University of Missouri scientists are studying a new method for controlling invasive carp. They’re studying the complex way carp eggs move in rivers, hoping they can find and remove them pre-hatch or early in life-history. Read the full story by Outdoor Life.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-carp

Patrick Canniff

State of Michigan and local officials gave their latest update to residents of the Emmet County village this past week following the discovery of PFAS in residential samples more than two years ago. Read the full story by The Petoskey News-Review.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-pfas

Patrick Canniff

The first juvenile piping plovers from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s summer 2021 fledglings were spotted this week in coastal Georgia, one of the endangered species’ wintering grounds. The news was posted last week on Facebook by the Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-piping-plovers

Patrick Canniff

Days of heavy rain this month overwhelmed Milwaukee’s sewer system, sending millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into area rivers and Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-sewer

Patrick Canniff

The Michigan city of Flint has completed construction of a secondary water pipeline to be used in case there is an emergency disruption to the primary water delivery system. Read the full story by WEYI–TV – Flint, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-flint-water

Patrick Canniff

Water level gains this summer have been less than average. Lakes Michigan and Huron reached its monthly peak this year in January, which has only happened three other times in recorded history dating back to 1918. Read the full story by NPR.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-algae

Patrick Canniff

The Mid-Michigan District Health Department has been notified by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, that an algal bloom on the lake at Paul Hubscher County Park in Sumner, MI has tested positive for algal toxin microcystin. Read the full story by The Morning Sun.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-algae

Patrick Canniff

The Adopt-a-Forest program is volunteer-driven and implemented by Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources to help people engage with the outdoors and encourage them to keep public lands clean. The program conducts outreach to find volunteers and then connects them with a site in need of a cleanup. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-forest-clean-up

Patrick Canniff

Hundreds got in the water north of the bridge Sunday, floating down the St. Clair River for the annual unsanctioned event. Within a couple of hours Sunday afternoon, groups began to get out of the water at the Float Down’s last stopping point in Marysville, with spectators watching from the shore as the seven-mile journey came to an end. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210816-port-huron

Patrick Canniff

The Duluth Seaway Port Authority and its terminal operations on Rice’s Point earned high marks in the recently released Green Marine 2020 environmental performance report, improving from a 3.8 rating in 2019 to a 4.0 score on Green Marine’s five-point scale. The annual report rates port authority participants in seven categories: air emissions, community impacts, dry bulk handling and storage, environmental leadership, spill prevention, underwater noise, and waste management. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-duluth-port

Patrick Canniff

A new instance of the invasive plant European frogbit was discovered by the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Initial monitoring efforts found the plant has spread to numerous marshes and tributaries of the bay of Green Bay, WI that are connected by drainage ditches. Read the full story by Green Bay Press Gazette.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-invasive-species

Patrick Canniff

This year, two pairs of piping plovers have decided to settle around Sandy Pond, which is a sand-filled inlet in Sandy Creek in New York state. As an endangered species their presence has stalled local sand dredging a necessity for boats to go in and out of the inlet, sparking debate as Lake Ontario is seeing low water levels this year. Read the full story by NPR News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-piping-plover

Patrick Canniff

The Senate has just voted on a landmark bipartisan infrastructure bill, which includes tens of billions of dollars for climate, energy, and environmental programs, including Great Lakes restoration. It also includes infrastructure programs that invest in a national clean energy grid and natural climate solutions providing critical co-benefits like cleaner air and water. Read the full story by Audubon.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-infrastructure

Patrick Canniff

The annual harmful algal bloom has arrived in western Lake Erie. What scientists are seeing so far is consistent with the late June forecast that the bloom will be small this year and categorized as a 3 in severity, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 the largest. Read the full story by The Courier.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-algae-habs

Patrick Canniff

Weiming Li, a professor with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife within the Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, studies sea lamprey chemical mating signals called pheromones in an effort to disrupt mating and help manage their populations. Read the full story by Phys.org.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-lamprey-invasive

Patrick Canniff

Even with a return to wetter conditions in late June and July, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Detroit District officials expect Great Lakes water levels to remain below 2019 and 2020 levels. Read the full story by WLUC–TV – Negaunee, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-lake-levels

Patrick Canniff

Ducklings struggling to stay afloat in Lake Ontario’s Toronto harbor now have a safe place to rest with the installation of low, floating plywood docks. PortsToronto installed duckling docks at water level in four shipping areas in June to help waterfowl unable to climb out of the water to rest. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-harbor-ducks

Patrick Canniff

With one of the crew members on the S.S. Badger having tested positive for COVID-19 and three more in quarantine, the Lake Michigan Carferry temporarily suspended the ship’s service. Read the full story by WOOD-TV Grand Rapids, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-shipping

Patrick Canniff

Isle Royale National Park is partnering with the Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area to offer free boat washes at marinas and boat launches in several Michigan counties to encourage recreational watercraft users to clean, drain, and dry watercraft to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species, particularly zebra mussels, in Lake Superior waters. Read the full story by The Daily Mining Gazette.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210811-boating

Patrick Canniff

Ohio’s Ottawa County Regional Water Treatment Plant has started detecting toxic microcystins for the first time this year in its Lake Erie raw water intake. Read the full story by Fremont News-Messenger.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-algae-hab

Patrick Canniff

The Invasive Species Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, hosted virtual information sessions for anglers, commercial fishermen, boaters and cottagers concerned about the looming threat from invasive grass carp, and asked people to report sightings of the fish to the Invasive Species Hotline. Read the full story by SooToday.com

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-carp

Patrick Canniff

When you visit the Great Lakes, whether it’s a sandy beach or a rocky coastline, it’s hard to imagine how lakes so big are affected so profoundly by alien invasive species, pollution, or climate change. Listen to the full story by Michigan Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-great-lakes-peril

Patrick Canniff

Two sailing drones are on the Great Lakes right now on a mission to collect data, scanning for fish and meteorological data. Read the full story by WGTU-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-drone-shipping

Patrick Canniff

The U.S. Air Force plans to install a pollution cleanup system at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan to prevent PFAS chemicals from entering Van Etten Lake. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-pfas-pollution

Patrick Canniff

The vessel Captain Henry Jackman set a new record cargo size for grain loaded at Ontario’s Port of Thunder Bay on the ship’s very first voyage, carrying Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat grown in southwestern Manitoba destined for international markets. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-shipping

Patrick Canniff

Running buffalo clover, a native plant that had been considered extinct, is being removed from the federal endangered species list after bouncing back in a half-dozen states east of the Mississippi River. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-endangered-species

Patrick Canniff

Since the summer began, partiers in Toronto, Ontario, have been breaking into a conservation area in Tommy Thompson Park to host all-night raves, leaving garbage and human waste behind, says a conservation group called Friends of The Spit. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210806-habitat

Patrick Canniff