Daily News (Page 161)

Despite above average outflows from the Great Lakes, water levels remain high due to high weather-caused inflow, damaging shoreline communities and causing costly restoration for homeowners. Read the full story by Orilliamatters.com.

Canada’s federal government announced Monday that it is investing $2 million for projects in Terrace Bay and Red Rock through the Green Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada plan, replacing water mains, sanitary sewers, and storm sewers to reduce the risk of flooding. Read the full story by WDIO – TV – Duluth, MN.

Coast Guard Cutters Mackinaw and Mobile Bay commenced the break out of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal as of Monday March 15. On Tuesday March 16, captain of the port Lake Michigan opened the southern half of Green Bay to commercial navigation. The regulated navigation area previously closed will be reopened as the two Coast Guard ice breakers proceed south creating a track through the ice from Sturgeon Bay to the Fox River entrance. Read the full story by The Sault News.

The state of Michigan has announced a total of $3.6 million in grants for 29 projects to combat invasive species that will be awarded through the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program. Read the full story by WLUC – TV – Negaunee, MI.

Midland and other cities were hit hard by a flood caused by the failure of a dam. If that flood happened a few years ago, the damage could have been worse. But, due to wetland restoration efforts, the thousand acres of restored wetlands helped reduce the severity of that flood. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

As of March 12, the Great Lakes water levels for 2021 are tracking below last year’s average levels, although Lake Michigan and Huron still remain well above the long-term average levels according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Read the full story by WZZM – FM – Grand Rapids, MI.

The Soo Locks will open 12 hours early this year, kicking off the 2021-22 Great Lakes shipping season a little ahead of schedule on March 24^th at noon. Read the full story by MLive.

The Ontario government is investing $20 million over the next four years in the Greenlands Conservation Partnership to help secure land of ecological importance and promote healthy, natural spaces. The funding will enable conservation groups to restore and manage natural areas while assisting a commitment under the province’s Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan to mitigate effects of climate change. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.

Pet stores in 32 states were recently found to be selling moss balls studded with the invasive species, zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), and the U.S. government wants the mollusks gone, one mangled moss ball at a time. Read the full story by AtlasObscura.

Last November, Gov. Whitmer revoked the easement that allows the Line 5 pipeline to operate, and ordered Enbridge to halt oil transport by May this year. Cited in the revocation, for the first time in the history of Line 5, Michigan’s administration officially acknowledged nearly 200-year-old Indigenous Chippewa and Ottawa treaty rights as one of the reasons to shut down the pipeline project and protect Great Lakes ecology and fisheries. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

Powerful gusts linked to global warming are damaging water quality and creating a hazard for fish in Lake Erie and perhaps elsewhere in the Great Lakes, according to researchers. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

Powerful gusts linked to global warming are damaging water quality and creating a hazard for fish in Lake Erie and perhaps elsewhere in the Great Lakes, according to researchers. Read the full story by The Associated Press.