Researchers at the University of Waterloo urge for the reduction of road salt applied during the winter months to reduce impacts of salinization on Ontario’s groundwater and lakes. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-ontario-salt
There has been an increased push in recent years to integrate Indigenous Nations’ ancestral knowledge and western science to find better ways to understand and manage the land. Read the full story by USA Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-tribes-knowledge
More than 4,000 cruise ship passengers visited Duluth, Minnesota in 2023 resulting in a $600,000 economic impact for the city. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-duluth-cruises
Feral goldfish have been invading much of North America, including the Great Lakes, for decades and recently their numbers seem to be rising rapidly. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-feral-goldfish
To bolster disappearing groundwater reserves, water will flow from Chicago to Joliet, Illinois via a 31-mile pipeline built to connect Lake Michigan to the city. Joliet is leading the way for proactive approaches toward water sustainability and finding a solution for the future of water sourcing. Read the full story by the Chicago Reader.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-joliet-water
The littoral combat ship USS Marinette LCS 25, built in Marinette, Wisconsin, and commissioned in Menominee, Michigan, traversed 15 locks, four Great Lakes and more than 1,400 nautical miles to reach the Atlantic Ocean and then continued its journey to its home port of Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-uss-marinette
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only inspired an iconic ballad from Canadian crooner Gordon Lightfoot, it also led to the advancement of Great Lakes weather monitoring and forecasting that has helped ships navigate storms ever since. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-storm-navigation
A charter captain faces prison and a fine when he is sentenced early next year for violating a Coast Guard order to stop commercial operation of his unlicensed boat on Lake St. Clair. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-unlicensed-vessel
Two of the biggest fishing derbies in the United States are being contested now on Lake Erie. The Walleye Fall Brawl and the Fall Walleye Slam attract contestants from more than 20 states and the winner of each derby will take home more than $100 thousand in cash, boats, and other prizes. Read the full story by WFXR-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-fishing-derbies
An outbreak of COVID-19 aboard a Canadian warship has forced the Royal Canadian Navy to cancel the remainder of a tour of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Read the full story by the National Post.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-warship-tour
The National Park Service is excavating a popular beach at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this fall to remove sand and rocks deposited there by annual river dredging, which formerly helped boaters access Lake Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-sleepingbear-beach
November is Historic Bridge Awareness Month and while Michigan is a state defined, in part, by a most iconic bridge—the Mighty Mac—there are many other less mighty but still remarkable bridges to be found across state. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231127-michigan-bridges
A recent report by Illinois firm PLG Consulting has found that a potential shutdown of Enbridge Energy’s controversial Line 5 pipeline would have a minimal impact on natural gas prices as existing energy transportation infrastructure could sufficiently address the absence of the petroleum pipeline. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-energy-report
An Ohio Sea Grant extension report surveying charter fishing captains about their business in 2020 was compared to survey results from 2010. The report says revenue for Ohio’s Lake Erie charter fishing industry increased more than 50% over this period— considerably higher than inflation. Read the full story by The Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-fishing-charter-revenue
The Environmental Law & Policy Center, Environmental Integrity Project, and other environmental groups filed comments with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management last week asking for tougher water permit standards to restrict the 5 million pounds a year of discharges now taking place at Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor in East Chicago, Indiana. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-discharge-regulation
The five Great Lakes are among the fastest-warming bodies of water on Earth, but major uncertainties and research gaps affect how governments and communities respond, according to the new National Climate Assessment. The report says many effective solutions are grounded in local knowledge, Indigenous leadership, and collaboration with Indigenous Nations and communities. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-climate-adaptation
The Sault Convention & Visitors Bureau says spending from about 9,000 cruise ship passengers generated nearly $1,000,000 in direct economic impact for Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in 2023. Read the full story by WWTV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-cruise-revenue
The National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio, plans to add 5,000 square feet so it can offer more permanent exhibition space, room for temporary exhibits, and a new Great Lakes Community Education Center. The expansion will break ground in the spring of 2024. Read the full story by The Advertiser-Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-museum-expansion
From Wisconsin’s Great Lakes shipwrecks to a pair of ancient Ho-Chunk dugout canoes found in Lake Mendota, a Wisconsin Historical Society underwater archaeologist has some great stories to tell. Read the full story by Wisconsin State Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-archaeologist-shipwreck-discoveries
A Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission survey found most anglers are satisfied with the Commission’s trout program, but responses indicate more public access is desired and that fishing methods are changing. Read the full story by Erie Times-News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-angler-survey
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Freshwater Sciences graduate student teaches K-12 students about freshwater systems and conservation through their underwater performances as Mermaid Echo. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-conservation-education
The Great Lakes Towing Company announced it has acquired a 62-year-old fireboat from the city of Cleveland, Ohio. The vessel, Anthony J. Celebrezze, was constructed in 1961 by Paasch Marine in Erie, Pennsylvania, and was used by the Cleveland Fire Department until it was replaced with a new vessel in June 2023 and put up for auction. Read the full story by Marine Link.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231122-fireboat-purchase
Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, state and federal agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish’s hotspot hideouts. Read the full story by MPR News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-invasivecarp-traitors-slow-geatlakespush
The Canadian government has awarded nearly $4 million to researchers at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) to study the behavior and impacts of oil spilled in the Great Lakes. LSSU plans to collaborate on the research with Algoma University, located across the international border in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-greatlakes-oilspill-canada
What are the items that Muskegon’s beach cleaning robot picks up the most? Plastic fragments. Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resources Institute, which owns and operates the BeBot remote-controlled roving sand sweeper, recorded a total of 6,237 plastic fragments recovered from the beach during summer 2023. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-trashrobot-muskegonbeach
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-boundary
The 2023 harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie was more severe than expected, and it’s possible that climate change could be the reason, as the blooms are getting started earlier, a federal scientist says. Read the full story by the Advertiser-Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-algalbloom-2023
The U.S. EPA is providing the Gun Lake Tribal Utility Authority with a $56 million loan to support improvements to the tribe’s drinking water and water wastewater systems. The loan will help fund design and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, groundwater wells, a new drinking water treatment plant and an elevated water storage tank. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-westmichigan-tribe-federalloan-waterinfrastructure
Many who have lived in Michigan for a while know that November tends to have stronger storm systems and strong winds, especially over the Great Lakes. Several storms packing gale-force winds have landed in the history books for being destructive and deadly around this time of year, and there is a reason for that. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-gales-november-greatlakes
The US. EPA selected the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Seneca Nation of Indians to receive a total of almost $2 million in Solid Waste for Recycling Grants. These grants will expand recycling infrastructure and education for waste management systems across both nations, complement an existing capital investment project, and directly benefit communities along the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-stregis-mohawktribe-funding-epa
Tetra Tech Inc. has garnered a $33 million contract from the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design a new navigation lock on the Illinois River. The navigation lock is one of eight on the Illinois Waterway system connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River on the west side of the state; most of the locks are on the Illinois River. These locks adjust water levels to minimize elevation changes for ships navigating the waterways. Read the full story by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231120-tetratech-contract-illinoisriver
When the 639-foot freighter SS Carl D. Bradley sank 47 miles west of Charlevoix in November 1958, it was one of the worst shipping disasters in Great Lakes history. At the time of the Bradley’s launch in 1927, it was the longest and largest boat on the Great Lakes. It held that title for 22 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald was launched in 1958, just five months before the Bradley was lost. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023112023-bradley-historic-sinking-northernmichigan
Ducks Unlimited Canada, (DUC), and Raisin Region Conservation Authority, (RRCA), are celebrating the recent acquisition of 10.4 acres, of valuable connective land in the St. Lawrence River watershed. The property allows for an expansion of the Cooper Marsh Conservation Area, a popular destination for nature lovers and birders alike. Read the full story by Cornwall Seaway News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2023112023-ducksunlimited-canada-raisinregion
Six companies based in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, have signed the 100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge, a first-of-its-kind international effort asking companies to publicly commit to productively using 100 per cent of each commercially caught Great Lakes fish by 2025. Read the full story by The Chatham Voice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-100-great-lakes-fish
State and federal officials battling grass carp in Ohio’s Sandusky River have launched a new effort to contain the invasive fish. The Sandusky River Grass Carp Barrier Project, as the project described Monday night is known, is in its first phase: a feasibility study to decide what should be built. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-grass-carp
A celebration is underway for farmers, scientists, and other conservation professionals as they mark the 10-year anniversary of Wisconsin’s “Lower Fox Demonstration Farm Network.” The effort is geared toward improving the quality of the water throughout the region and reducing sediment and phosphorus loading into Green Bay. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-lower-fox-demonstration-farm-network
The Cuyahoga River was labeled an “area of concern” in 1987. Since then, the river has made remarkable progress, eliminating five of its designated shortcomings, the latest having to do with the health of fish. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-cuyahoga-river
Due to a strike of unionized Canadian Seaway workers, the St. Lawrence Seaway is preparing for its latest seasonal closing date in its 64-year history. This has sparked concern among environmentalists along the St. Lawrence River who worry about the safety and regulation of winter navigation. Read the full story by WWT-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-late-seaway-closure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved a plan to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen in the Maumee River Watershed – one of the main drivers of persistent toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Ohio Newsroom.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-algal-blooms
This week, work began on the long-awaited redevelopment of the marina and ferry terminal serving Grand Portage, Minnesota, and Isle Royale. The project includes demolishing the existing site to rehabilitate the dock structures and construct a new boat launch. Read the full story by Bring Me The News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-grand-portage-marina
Officials with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are pleased with egg harvest efforts this season at the Little Manistee River Weir. Eggs collected at the weir are then sent to fish hatcheries in Michigan where the fish are reared and later stocked throughout the state. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-fishery-egg-collection
A Kingsville, Ontario based brewery has taken the expression ‘having a cold one’ to the extreme. Last winter, The Grove Brewing Company sank 500 bottles of beer to the bottom of Lake Erie and left them to age for three months Nearly a year later, that brew is finally being made available to adventurous craft beer enthusiasts. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-lake-eriebeer
Conservation groups are sounding an alarm that a land swap between the state and a private company along Lake Michigan’s shores could set a harmful precedent for state parks and conserved lands, and are asking Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers for help. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-land-swap
There are a multitude of threats to water resources throughout the Great Lakes basin, which underscores the burden that falls on Indigenous Nations to protect their treaty rights even though they may not have the staffing, time, or money to do so. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-treaty-rights
Seven years after the Chicago City Council first approved plans for a marina next to Navy Pier, the long-stalled project appears ready to set sail. Read the full story by WGN-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-navypier-marina
Anglers will be allowed to keep fewer steelhead trout in a handful of Michigan rivers after state regulators tightened regulations over fears of population declines. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-steelhead-limits
In Toledo, Ohio, the National Museum of the Great Lakes announced an upcoming expansion as well as a change in leadership during their annual State of the Museum update. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-museum-expansion
The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is expanding tourism along the Lake Superior shoreline near Bayfield, Wisconsin. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-redcliff-tourism
More than 210 years after the Battle of Lake Erie, a replica of the U.S. Brig Niagara still sails the Great Lakes, giving visitors a chance to learn the very old art of square-rig sailing, as well as a chance to engage with a key part of U.S. naval history. Read the full story by the Butler Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-brig-niagara
The Oneida Nation reservation, located within the lower Fox River watershed which drains into Green Bay, Wisconsin, has successfully limited phosphorus in creeks for two consecutive years, with recent evidence of reproducing brook trout for the first time in decades. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231115-indigenous-agriculture
