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The boundaries for two mosquito species, the yellow fever mosquito and the Asian tiger mosquito, are moving northward into the Great Lakes Basin, bringing with them the ability to transmit diseases of public importance including Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, according to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency. Read the full story by The Daily Telegram.

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Manoomin was once widespread across Michigan and the entire Upper Great Lakes. But hundreds of years of European settlement removed it from much of the landscape as settlers trenched and drained natural waterways, destroying countless acres of natural habitat. Now Great Lakes tribes like Bay Mills are working to restore wild rice to the ecosystem not only to reclaim cultural heritage but also to build thriving beds of the native species for the future. Read the full story by MLive.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan Thursday to reduce the amount of phosphorus flowing into the Maumee River and eventually into Lake Erie, where the farm nutrient is considered the main contributor to the creation of harmful algal blooms. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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A beloved Windsor landmark’s tenure in Reaume Park has come to an end after 45 years of shooting water jets in the air and covering visitors with refreshing mist from the Detroit River. The Charles Brooks Memorial Peace Fountain — the biggest floating fountain in the world — was disconnected and barged to Lakeview Park Marina for the last time on Thursday. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.

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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed state officials from a lawsuit related to past lead contamination in a small southwestern Michigan city’s drinking water but said the case could proceed against city officials, including the mayor. Read the full story by ABC News.

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The $7 million project, part of the massive Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, first dredged tons of muck out of the lake that had settled there over decades. Then it deepened parts of the lake and restored aquatic habitat and fish spawning habitat. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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A new Michigan bill package is set to be introduced to the Senate next week regarding water affordability. The package includes creating a fund to help people statewide who are struggling to pay their water bills, but not everyone is on board. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.  

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The Ports of Indiana have an annual economic impact of $8.7 million, a new study concluded. Indianapolis-based port authority the Ports of Indiana commissioned the study to determine the economic contributions of its ports at Burns Harbor, Jeffersonville and Mount Vernon. The study looked at domestic cargo, international freight, wages, taxes and the economic output of companies at the ports, such as all the steel service centers that operate out of the Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor. Read the full story by the Northwest Times of Indiana.  

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The Door County Maritime Museum’s annual Maritime Speaker Series kicks off its 2023-24 season Oct. 5 with the chance for guests to watch, listen and learn both in person and online. The speakers present on a variety of topics ranging from historical to current issues affecting the Great Lakes and the economy that relies on them. The programs are held the first Thursday of each month from October through May. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.

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A federal oversight team is criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its handling of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a grant program that received roughly $4 billion for environmental projects in the Great Lakes region since it launched in 2010. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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Led by the Bay Mills Indian Community, more than 60 tribal nations from Indian Country have weighed in on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s lawsuit to move the Line 5 oil pipeline from the heart of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Native News Online.

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Great Lakes tribes that cherish the Straits of Mackinac say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water. Read the full story by The Guardian.

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The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks well preserved. Now, an invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks, forcing archeologists and amateur historians into a race against time to find as many sites as they can. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Only about 15 percent of the cumulative lake floor in the Great Lakes has ever been mapped in significant detail. Hoping to fix that is the project Lakebed 2030, an ambitious effort to map the totality of the Great Lakes by the end of the decade. Read the full story by The Leelanau Ticker.

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Planners are in the early stages of an 18-month, $1.4 million project to plan a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Lakewood, Ohio’s coast. The plan will involve working with building owners to find a long-term erosion control measure. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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Five flamingos have been spotted on Lake Michigan in Port Washington, Wisconsin, just north of Milwaukee. Audubon Florida speculates the birds were flying between Cuba and the Yucatan and got diverted by Hurricane Idalia. Read the full story by WDJT-TV – Milwaukee, WI.

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The historic Great Lakes car ferry, S.S. Badger will receive a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration. The contribution will go towards an ongoing feasibility analysis to convert the coal-fired steamship into a zero-emission ferry vessel. Read the full story by Trains.

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Since the early 2000s, Black River, a nearly 15-mile waterway in Alcona County, Michigan that flows into Lake Huron, has had an issue where sand moves and builds up at the mouth that lets water into Lake Huron. Solutions to fix the problem vary. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Lake Erie’s harmful algal bloom has been shrinking for about one or two weeks, but scientists don’t know yet when it will disappear. Last year’s bloom behaved differently from blooms in previous years, so that makes it harder to predict when the bloom will go away. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.

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Revive Environmental, created by Battelle in Ohio, teamed up with Heritage-Crystal Clean, based in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area, to launch the PFAS Annihilator that destroys toxic PFAS chemicals. Once the process is complete, the PFAS-free water is sent to a local Publicly Owned Treatment Works facility, where it’s processed into drinking water. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $5 million to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor to establish the Global Center for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters, which will be based at the university’s School for Environment and Sustainability. Read the full story by MLive.

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A birchbark canoe well over 100 years old has a new home in Kanien’kehá:ka territory south of Montreal, Québec, after spending decades in storage in Québec and Minnesota. While it’s currently on display in the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center, the canoe will eventually be housed in a new museum. Read the full story by CBC News.

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StreamGo, a Hamilton, Ontario, company, has developed a process that not only removes PFAS, but also deconstructs the chemicals so they’re no longer harmful to the environment and humans. StreamGo has turned to the Buffalo Sewer Authority to help prove it has developed a system that can be applied to wastewater heavily contaminated with PFAS. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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U.S. EPA Great Lakes Office director Chris Korleski recently spoke at the Areas of Concern (AOC) conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to emphasize the importance of partnerships in AOC remediation. The conference theme this year was “accelerate,” referring to President Biden’s February 2022 initiative to quicken the pace of AOC remediation by infusing an additional $1 billion over five years. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Steel production rose by 16,000 tons in the Great Lakes region last week, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Steel mills in Indiana’s Great Lakes region made 571,000 tons of metal in the week that ended September 16, up from 555,000 tons the previous week. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is actively investigating a new PFAS site in Courtland Township, where state officials have not pinpointed the source of the contamination. EGLE has identified several wells with PFAS levels ranging from 50 to 110 parts per trillion (ppt), significantly higher than the regulation levels of 8 to 16 ppt. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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The input will be used for the creation of a city waterfront access master plan that will recommend potential access points along the stretch of Lake Ontario from Lakeshore Road West to Read Road. City-owned properties along the lake are being looked at for the study, including parks, beaches, trails and other spaces. Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.

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Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have netted lake trout in Lake Superior for the first time in more than 160 years. Band members and others say the event marks another chapter in the ongoing success story of Lake Superior’s lake trout resurgence. Read the full story by Duluth News Tribune.

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Illinois has ended the statewide testing of fish from Illinois lakes and rivers for organochlorine pesticides such as DDT. State officials say the levels of the pesticides found through testing have diminished to near zero over the past 50 years, allowing the state to discontinue testing for those chemicals. Read the full story by The Telegraph.

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Mackinac Island, Michigan, is getting grant funding to build a new wastewater treatment plant as part of $81.2 million in state funding from the MI Clean Water Plan which helps communities upgrade water-focused infrastructure and protect health and the environment. Read the full story by the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.

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The city of Cleveland, Ohio, wants to create a tax-increment financing district across much of downtown to help pay for waterfront development plans along the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. The projects would include improving public access to the riverfront in the form of parks and other amenities, bulkhead improvements on the river, and other public infrastructure upgrades. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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Researchers from the Shedd Aquarium, Purdue University, and the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant are tracking the movements of 80 individual fish in the Chicago River system using acoustic telemetry. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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Under one option of its proposed Wilderness Stewardship Plan, Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior would consider remaining open to visitors in the winter if Lake Superior is “100% ice-free for five years.” Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Michigan teen’s photo shoot with his steer along the Lake Michigan shoreline has become a subject of contention in Milton Township, Michigan, and part of a larger debate about what limits should apply to the use of public spaces. Read the full story by MLive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A mat-forming cyanobacteria, Lyngbya, has been growing along shorelines in Lake St. Clair, Michigan for the last decade. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Macomb County, Michigan are conducting a joint two-year study to understand cyanobacteria’s growth, determine whether it poses health risks, and find treatment options. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

 

 

 

 

 

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Leveraging its treaty-granted sovereign nation status, the White Earth Band tribe in Minnesota is establishing its own authority to issue permits for expansions of large livestock and dairy operations within its reservation boundary to protect reservation water reserves. Read the full story by MinnPost.

 

 

 

 

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The eDNA of silver carp has been detected in a water sample taken from the St. Joseph River near Berrien Springs, Michigan, as part of a regular U.S. Fish and Wildlife program to monitor Michigan waterways for the invasive bighead and silver carp. However, a positive eDNA sample does not necessarily indicate the presence of live fish. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

 

 

 

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The Crooked River Lock in Alanson, Michigan, closed for the remainder of the 2023 season as engineers perform critical maintenance. The lock is part of the 36-mile Inland Waterway beginning at Lake Huron through which up to 40,000 recreational boat passengers pass annually. Read the full story by The Petoskey News-Review.

 

 

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With fall bird migration well underway, data from the website BirdCast estimates over 150 million birds have crossed the state of Michigan since late August. BirdCast provides a migration forecast for Michigan from September to November. Read the full story by Manistee News Advocate.

 

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