The Canton, New York village board of trustees is considering a resolution to recognize the rights of the Grasse River in upstate New York. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221128-river-rights
In Lake Erie’s western basin, toxic algal blooms lasted into November for the first time in the past 20 years of data gathering. Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are analyzing the impacts of weather conditions and the species of algae on the bloom’s extended stay. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-algae-conditions
In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, to stop dumping dangerous coal ash into unlined storage ponds and speed cleanup of the site. This marks the first time the EPA has formally denied a utility’s request to continue disposing toxic coal ash after a deadline to stop such disposal has passed. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-coal-ash-order
In Lisbon, New York, the Eel Protection Study, a five-month study that investigates the use of light to guide adult American eel through hydroelectric power stations, aims to guide, collect, and transport the eel during its migration from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. Read the full story by Seaway News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-eel-protection
Angelica Vazquez-Ortega, a Bowling Green State University geochemist, obtained more than $1 million in grants to study the effects of using dredged lake sediment from Lake Erie as a farm soil amendment to mitigate nutrient overflow into the lake. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-sediment-fertilizer
A new report led by St. Paul, Minnesota-based Freshwater Society reveals how groundwater is governed and serves as a reference for water policy and resource professionals to build future policy work. The authors conclude that the current structures, cobbled together over decades in response to different kinds of stressors and crises, does not adequately provide for a sustainable and equitable groundwater management for the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions. Read the full story by The Waynedale News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-groundwater-governance
The Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort, a watchdog group, has tracked a particular bird that has foregone its migration to Michigan to forage in Florida over the past several breeding seasons. Even though this bird has apparently taken herself out of the nesting business, 150 piping plover chicks were fledged in the wild at dozens of nesting sites along the Great Lakes shoreline – a huge step in the numbers game for this small bird. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-piping-plover-migration
On November 26, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw will travel from Cheboygan, Michigan, to Chicago with its annual shipment of 1,200 Christmas trees to deliver holiday cheer to families in need. This is the 23rd year of carrying on the tradition of the schooner Rouse Simmons, which sank in Lake Michigan in 1912 with a cargo full of Christmas trees. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-christmas-ship
COMMENTARY: In the St. Clair River, northern madtoms are one of the species that helps researchers gauge the overall health of the river and its inhabitants as they eat some of the tiniest organisms in the system, which are also some of the most sensitive and vulnerable to pollutants. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221123-catfish-indicator
The National Museum of the Great Lakes recently added the bell of the passenger steamer G.P. Griffith to its shipwreck artifacts collection. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-shipwreck
Lake Superior is notorious for deadly November storms. Perhaps the worst was the Mataafa Storm of 1905, when 36 lives were lost, and 29 vessels were damaged or destroyed. Read the full story by The Sun Times News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-lake-storm
There are two basic reasons why Lower Michigan will probably never record six feet of snow in one lake-effect snow event. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-buffalo
The discovery of evidence in a Lake Michigan shipwreck comes on the 175th anniversary of its sinking. The Wisconsin Maritime Museum recently confirmed the steamer Phoenix was found off the coast of Sheboygan. Read the full story by WLUK – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-superior-beach
The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa recently acquired a parcel of beachfront property along Lake Superior outside Grand Marais, Minnesota. Read the full story by WTIP –Grand Marais, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-superior-beach
The Great Lakes Climate Corps hiked 320 km of Michigan coastline, picking up debris, including trash left by increasing the number of nature tourists in the Upper Peninsula. Read the full story by Soo Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-superior-cleanup
A Bowling Green State University geochemist is exploring a promising way to close the loop and mitigate nutrient overflow into Lake Erie using material from the lake as a farm soil amendment. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-lake-erie
A storm packing snow, strong winds and cold temperatures swept through West Michigan this week, and it left behind a visually compelling scene at Lake Michigan beaches. Sand formations, also known as “sand hoodoos,” popped up along the beach at Grand Haven State Park. Read the full story by the Muskegon Chronicle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-sand-formations
A dangerous lake-effect snowstorm paralyzed parts of western and northern New York on Friday, with more than 3 feet of snow already on the ground in some places by early afternoon. The storm was blamed for the deaths of two people stricken while clearing snow. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-new-york-snow
Over 30 Eastern Ontario, Canada mayors have signed a letter to Premier Doug Ford asking the province to press pause on changing the roles of conservation authorities. Read the full story by the Ottawa Citizen.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221121-conservation
Under an initiative announced at a United Nations climate gathering last week, preliminary plans are in the works for a “Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System Green Shipping Corridor Network” as means of spurring the early adoption of zero-emission fuels and technologies within the shipping sector. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-green-corridor
A new study has demonstrated how an advisory program designed for the Anishinaabe is a useful tool for tracking fish consumption in Great Lakes tribes. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-health-resources
Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania along the Ohio River became fully operational Tuesday, oil and gas giant Shell plc said. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-shell
The International Joint Commission reported that Lake Michigan is in fair condition, meaning the health of the lake has not worsened but does not show signs of improvement either. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-lake-michigan-health
Less than 45 miles northwest of Northport and 16 miles southwest of Lake Michigan’s Gull Island lie the remains of the Great Lakes freighter the Carl D. Bradley. The freighter broke apart in 40-foot waves 64 years ago today. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-carl-d-bradley
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will increase Chinook salmon stocked in Lake Michigan by 50,000 starting in spring 2023, per Lake Michigan Committee agreement. Read the full story by KPC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-salmon-stocking
An Indiana man pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay $10,500 in restitution after illegally importing 2,600 pounds of live channel catfish into Illinois. Read the full story by The Southern Illinoisan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-dumping-catfish
It’s back to the drawing board for scientists trying to come up with an accurate forecasting model for the annual harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie. For the second year in a row, the severity of the bloom has been underestimated. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-algal-bloom
The U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, entered into consent decrees with two Northeast Ohio communities, mandating cities make modernizing repairs to their sewer systems to address sewer overflows into Lake Erie and Rocky River in Lakewood, and the Black River in Elyria, and bring both cities sewer systems into compliance with the Clean Water Act. Read and listen to the full story by WKSU – Kent, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-sewer-updates
Moxley Wildlife Area on Lake Erie’s Sandusky Bay, recently expanded by 99 acres after a donation by Ducks Unlimited, reports the Ohio Division of Wildlife, and increases the existing public wetland complex along Sandusky Bay. Read the full story by The Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-sandusky-bay
Consumers Energy is considering whether to keep its 13 hydropower dams on Michigan rivers. The dams are environmentally and financially costly, and deliver little energy, but their reservoirs are beloved for recreation. The outcome could dramatically alter Michigan’s rivers and surrounding communities. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-hydropower
In Michigan, plans for The Docks development on Muskegon Lake that include a new marina and 240 homes are the subject of a public hearing hosted by the state’s water resources division. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-thedocks-marina-lakemidevelopment
In Hammond, Indiana, Perch America has stocked Wolf Lake 24 times, adding an estimated 124,000 advanced-growth walleye to the lake over the years. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-noaaship
Exploring new territory, the commanding officer of the NOAA ship Thomas Jefferson and his crew have discovered multiple shipwrecks on the lakebed of the Great Lakes. The ship surveyed Lake Erie and Lake Ontario last spring for the first time in over 30 years. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-noaaship
While Great Lakes fish populations are constantly in a state of flux, one species has declined precipitously in the last decade: lake whitefish. But Great Lakes leaders and fisheries managers are looking ahead in planning to do more with less. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-iceland-whitefisheffort
Studying pollution in the St. Lawrence River reveals information about relationships between societies and nature. What changes inside the water as it travels past cities, farms, islands, ports, factories? Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-water-pollution
Four days after a proposed agreement to improve western Lake Erie management efforts was opened for public comment, the state of Ohio held a webinar on developments with the H2Ohio program that aims to improve water quality. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-h2ohioprogram-fouryears
Agricultural producers and landowners in the Western Lake Erie Basin interested in implementing conservation practices are able to apply for funding through the Tri-State Regional Conservation Partnership Program. The funding opportunity was recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Read the full story by The Daily Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-funds-agproducers-nrcs
On Nov. 15, 1938, the James E. McAlpine was in Milwaukee loading cargo. Vintage photographs from the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society and Milwaukee Public Library provide a glimpse into the ship’s history. Read the full story by On Milwaukee.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-portmilwaukee
Great Lakes shipping remains down, depressed by 5.15% so far this year despite an increase in transits. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-cargo
The toxic cyanobacterial bloom that’s become a yearly problem in Lake Erie’s western basin was relatively small this year but the bloom has lasted an unusually long time and was still there well into the fall. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-algae-bloom
After 38 years, David G. White II will retire from his job as New York Sea Grant coastal recreation and tourism specialist. After all these years, there are plenty of notable accomplishments to reflect on and celebrate. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-sea-grant
Three Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate in the Great Lakes states won on Election Day with strong backing from environmental groups. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-envionmental-groups
Bells tolled at Mariners’ Church of Detroit on Sunday in memory of sailors who have lost their lives at sea on the Great Lakes. The annual Great Lakes Memorial service was held at the historic church, which sits along the Detroit River in downtown Detroit. Read the full story by the Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-edmund-fitzgerald-ship
To commemorate the 1912 voyage to Chicago by the schooner Rouse Simmons to deliver Christmas trees for needy families The National Museum of the Great Lakes has begun taking both reservations and donation requests for Christmas trees to be delivered to the Toledo waterfront. Read the full story by The Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-tree-ship
The first Blue-Tech night dedicated to water innovations on Nov. 1 was a success, as presentations of startup companies and research project pitches, as well as several updates from previous pitch contestants, drove the first TCNewTech event focused on “blue economy or water innovation.” Read the full story by The Record-Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-blue-tech
The Wayne County, New York Water and Sewer Authority will receive a $30 million state grant for a new regional wastewater treatment plant as part of nearly $300 million awarded under New York State’s Intermunicipal Grant program. Read the full story by Finger Lake Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-wastewater
Sailing aboard Denali 3, a 46-foot all-carbon vessel, Geoff Paine and his crew earned first place finishes this summer in both the Bayview Mackinac Race and Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. Read the full story by Manistee News Advocate.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-sailing
In the last 18 months, the port of Oswego in New York State, has invested over $3.5 million in dock upgrades with the investments predicted to double by the end of next year. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-port
Ren Brabanec recounts their experience witnessing a wildfire while hiking on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Read the full story by Northern Express.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-wildfire
For those living near the Great Lakes who think they are somewhat insulated from the effects of climate change, a 1,695-word draft of a National Climate Assessment report released Monday included some sobering news: Lakes face a growing threat of hazardous algae blooms. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-climate-change
