The radar technology developed to find water on Mars is cheaper and more effective in detecting leaks in public water systems compared to traditional ones, and now it has arrived in five Michigan cities. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-water-leak-detection-technologies
All water customers in Waukesha, Wisconsin now have water from Lake Michigan. A coffee shop owner said he is happy with the new H20. Read the full story by WDJT-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-waukesha-water-swtich
The sea lamprey is a parasitic fish that ranks among the most destructive invasive species lurking in the Great Lakes, and natural resource agencies are working to limit their spread and impacts. Read the full story by Manistee News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-sea-lamprey
The Great Lakes are in their seasonal water level decline and over the next few months, all may come close to being near normal water levels. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-water-level-drop
Federal, state and local officials have agreed to spend about $450 million to dredge contaminated sediment from Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan harbor and area rivers. The project calls for removing almost 2 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan harbor and 12 miles of the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers in Wisconsin. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-milwaukee-clean-up
Two filmmakers making a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in Lake Huron found something much larger than the fingertip-sized mollusk. Read the full story by FOX Weather.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-found-shipwreck
Along with running the state, Gov. Whitmer was named the next Chair of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers on Friday. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-govwhitmer-greatlakes-stlawrence-governorsandpremiers-chair
Construction crews are working to complete a modernization of the Soo Locks, a task given greater urgency by revelations about the economic impact of disrupted supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic. The question is whether the upgrades can get the funds they need in time despite a huge influx of cash from Washington. Read the full story by The Wall Street Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-us-expandmichiganlocks
More than 130 road and bridge projects have bought credits to Michigan’s Perry Wetland Mitigation Bank bank since it opened. It was the first wetland bank built using state gas taxes — and a second one just opened. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-manmadewetland-michigan-fixroads
Like most older urban communities in Metro Detroit, the Red Run has combined sewers – pipes carrying raw sewage and stormwater runoff. These aging systems are ill-equipped to handle the massive volumes of stormwater runoff that we’re now seeing – and will continue to see more of – due to climate change. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-rain-climate-metrodetroit-unprepared
This week, TV6′s Elizabeth Peterson takes you along on a journey through the Great Lakes aboard the Lee A. Tregurtha, a vessel with the Interlake Steamship Company. Read the full story by TV6 – Negaunee, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-tregurtha-greatlakes
Experts say nutrient-rich water from greenhouse farms could be harming Lake Erie, but Ontario’s Environment Ministry has issued very few fines for potential algae-causing infractions since 2019. Read the full story by The Narwhal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-lakeerie-southwesternontario
Thousands of water utilities across the Great Lakes region and nationwide will decide in the next three months whether to join two multibillion-dollar, class-action settlements against the largest producers of toxic PFAS chemicals that have tainted drinking water supplies. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-pfas-nationalsettlement-waterutilities
What’s needed in Michigan is a true affordability plan, water rights advocate Monica Lewis-Patrick told Great Lakes Now in an interview. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-michiganwaterrights
A Minnesota angler broke a 53-year-old state record with a coho salmon he caught during a fishing trip on Lake Superior in September. Read the full story by KMSP-TV – Minneapolis, MN.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-minnesota-recordbreaking-cohosalmon
Sinkholes don’t just happen on land, they also exist in the Great Lakes, a topic that will be explored in the next lecture hosted by the Maritime Museum as part of its Working Waterfronts Lecture Series. Read the full story by The Herald Palladium.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023-1016-lakehuron-sinkholes
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When a municipality builds a new road and damages wetlands in the process, Michigan state law says new wetlands have to be constructed somewhere else. That’s led to establishing “wetland banks” for city, township, and county road agencies. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-wetlands
Proposals are calling for the construction of a large housing complex on a former industrial site on Michigan’s Muskegon Lake, but old contamination concerns have surfaced. Per environmental data compiled by surveyors prior to the property’s ownership transfer, toxic materials, explosive gasses and industrial contaminants were still present in large concentrations. Read the full story by WZZM-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-pfas-muskegon
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Gales began whipping up on Lake Superior late last week, when temperatures took a sharp drop across the U.P. and the rest of Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-superior-storms
For decades, the beaches adjacent to Lake Michigan were acclaimed as a special place and carried the designation of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. When the lakeshore became a national park in 2019, everything was altered in the public eye. Read the full story by The Tribune.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-indiana-dunes
Lake Erie is the holder of a new Great Lakes waterspout record! There were 181 waterspouts and funnels over the lake in just one day. Read the full story by WJW-TV – Cleveland, OH.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-waterspouts
The University of Wisconsin-Superior Lake Superior Research Institute’s Ballast Water Treatment Testing Facility is researching a filter technology that can be used to help keep invasive aquatic species out of the lake. Read the full story by Spectrum News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-lake-superior-state
Enbridge Energy last week sought help from a state oversight panel due to the “inexplicably lethargic” permit review by federal regulators for the company’s Great Lakes Tunnel Project to replace Line 5 under the Straights of Mackinac. Read the full story by WDET – Detroit, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231011-line5
In Wisconsin, Lake Michigan’s water has begun flowing through the city of Waukesha’s precedent-setting new water distribution system. The Waukesha Water Utility developed an interactive map that will be updated as utility workers sample water coming from the open hydrants, confirming that lake water is present. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-water-supply
A major maritime shoreline revitalization project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will bring both economic and climate benefits when it expectedly reopens to the public in July 2024. The upgraded site will provide a valuable deep-water port on the lower St. Marys River for freighters or cruise ships within walking distance of the Soo’s downtown. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-shoreline-revitalization
In June 2023, a pair of documentary filmmakers set out on their boat in Larsen Cove, Ontario, to work on a film about quagga mussels in the Great Lakes. They discovered a large wooden ship, whose whereabouts have been a mystery for the last 127 years. Read the full story by Canadian Geographic.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-shipwreck-discovery
According to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the cleanup of the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern is now more than 50% complete. In addition, more than 900 acres of habitat are on their way to achieving or have achieved restoration goals. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-habitat-restoration
Holtec International, the owner of Palisades Power Plant in Covert Township, Michigan, has submitted paperwork to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking authorization to bring the shuttered nuclear plant back into production, which would be a first for the country. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-nuclear-plant-restart
This week, a cyanobacteria bloom formed on Muskegon Lake near downtown Muskegon, Michigan, turning the water along the shoreline green with algae scum. According to a Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy map of reported algae blooms, the bloom on October 2 is the third such verified occurrence on Muskegon Lake this year. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-algae-bloom
Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff are conducting an evaluation study on marked splake at Lake Superior ports through 2030. The study is designed to help fisheries managers understand the percentage of stocked fish caught by anglers, the home range of splake, and harvest metrics such as harvest rates and fish size at harvest by year and location. Read the full story by Up North Voice.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-splake-study
The historic Cloverland hydropower plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, is among the longest standing renewable energy facilities in Michigan. Experts argue legacy facilities like this may become increasingly important as the state shifts away from fossil fuel-burning power plants. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-legacy-hydropower
The problem of plastics in the Great Lakes is a subject of “The Blue Paradox,” an immersive, educational exhibition on view at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The exhibition explores the pervasiveness of plastic pollution and the steps we can take to address it. Read the full story by The Chicago Reader.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-plastic-exhibit
In Muskegon County, Michigan, an updated Watershed Management Plan is being developed by the Mona Lake Watershed Council and the Muskegon Conservation District (MCD). The MCD sent 1,029 surveys to randomly selected landowners within the watershed as planning for ongoing protection of Mona Lake and its watershed can’t move forward without critical citizen input about uses and threats. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231009-watershed-plan
Lake Erie could release another foul-smelling “burp” this weekend, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Officially called an upwelling event, the release of trapped gasses from the bottom of the lake is what DEP officials believe caused an acrid smell. Read the full story by Erie Times-News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231006-lake-burp
The 136-year-old historic lighthouse at Tawas Point State Park in Michigan will reopen to the public in 2024 following a successful restoration effort this year. Read the full story by MLive Media Group.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231006-lighthouse-restoration
The city of Willoughby and the Western Reserve Land Conservancy in Ohio have partnered to preserve 105-acres of natural habitat in the Chagrin River watershed with more than $1.7 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read the full story by Ideastream Public Media.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231006-land-preservation
Erie Coke, which was closed in 2019 because of chronic environmental issues, left behind decades worth of pollution that pose a threat to Lake Erie. The Erie County Redevelopment Authority purchased the corporation property, tore down buildings, and completed an extensive environmental cleanup. Read the full story by Erie Times-News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231006-erie-coke-cleanup
