U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell visited the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens to discuss the impacts of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative following the $1 billion in federal infrastructure funding the initiative received last year. Read the full story by The Michigan Daily.

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U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell visited the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens to discuss the impacts of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative following the $1 billion in federal infrastructure funding the initiative received last year. Read the full story by The Michigan Daily.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-infrastructure-bill

Samantha Tank

The New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting issued a siting permit for a 33-turbine wind energy facility to be located near a wildlife management area close to Lake Ontario. However, this is raising concerns for the safety of migratory birds. Read the full story by the Poughkeepsie Journal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-wind-turbine

Samantha Tank

Detroit’s aging infrastructure is causing water to seep through cracks and the freezing temperatures are making matters worse. The City of Detroit Water and Sewerage department is dispatching crews around the clock to repair water main breaks. Read the full story by WWJ-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-water-main-breaks

Samantha Tank

By Rachel Duckett As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden made a series of energy-related promises, including net-zero emissions by 2050 and the launch of “a national effort aimed at creating the jobs we need to build a modern, sustainable infrastructure now and deliver an equitable clean energy future.” Last August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

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...BITTER COLD WIND CHILL READINGS EXPECTED LATE THIS EVENING INTO FRIDAY MORNING... The combination of temperatures dropping below zero, and northwest winds of 5 to 15 mph will produce wind chill readings of 10 to near 20 below zero late this evening into Friday morning. Winds will ease a bit later tonight to around 5 mph as

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Current activities at the Spirit Lake Great Lakes Legacy Act cleanup site. Image credit: U. S, Environmental Protection Agency

The next River Talk will take place at 7 p.m., Wednesday, February 9, via Zoom. Mark Loomis, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Great Lakes National Program Office, will present, “Update on the Spirit Lake Great Lakes Legacy Act Project.”

The EPA continues work at the Spirit Lake site under the Great Lakes Legacy Act. Loomis will provide technical updates on progress to-date and the plan for remediating the Spirit Lake project area.

Here is the Zoom link and info:
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93995368994?pwd=UElHcHlybGZmRUdLRG5xU3oyQ3ZmZz09 
Meeting ID: 939 9536 8994
Passcode: 206104
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+13126266799,,93995368994# US (Chicago)
+19292056099,,93995368994# US (New York)  

The event will last an hour and will include time for comments and questions. The talk will be recorded and posted afterward on the Reserve’s Facebook page and YouTube. A summary will also be posted on Wisconsin Sea Grant’s blog.

Remaining River Talks will be held March 8, April 13 and May 11, 2022. For more information, visit the River Talks page: go.wisc.edu/4uz720.

The River Talks are sponsored by The Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Wisconsin Sea Grant Program.

 

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Marie Zhuikov

Great Lakes Water Authority monitoring Detroit River for algal bloom threat

As the Great Lakes experience more harmful algal blooms due to climate change, real time monitoring of drinking water for toxins is becoming increasingly urgent.  

Warm water temperatures, increased rainfall and fertilizer run-off from farm fields are providing fuel for blooms that can taint water. 

This spring, a floating sensor for monitoring drinking water drawn from the Detroit River will begin giving real-time data on potentially toxic blue-green algae, along with other water quality data such as temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen.  

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Sharon Oosthoek

103 years after National Geographic published its article on berries, Michigan is witnessing some changes due to climate change and invasive species.

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http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/01/27/threats-to-the-native-berries-amongst-us/

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...BLUSTERY AND COLD WITH SOME DRIFTING SNOW THIS EVENING... The core of the cold air mass that brought frigid temperatures to the region this morning was beginning to shift out of the area. As a result, the temperature will hold nearly steady or even edge up a few degrees during the evening. But the increasing south winds that were ushering the more moderate air into the area will

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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The Michigan Department of Environmental, Great Lakes and Energy released the draft MI Healthy Climate Plan as an outline of how the state plans to reach Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s goal of getting the state carbon neutral by 2050. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-michigan-climate

Ken Gibbons

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will be performing a phase 1 environmental assessment at a potential redevelopment site in Alma. The environmental assessment will determine what, if any, types of contaminants are on the site and whether or not remediation will be required before the parcel can be reused. Read the full story by the Morning Sun.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-egle-assessment

Ken Gibbons

Jan. 26, 1837, serves as the day Michigan officially became the 26th state. The Great Lakes State has much to offer, but we don’t need to tell you that. To celebrate 185 years, check out some of these Detroit News’ Michigan Marvels. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-marvels

Ken Gibbons

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has completed its annual Great Lakes survey season, conducted on all of our Great Lakes waters from April to November 2021. The data from these surveys directly informs fisheries management decisions and future actions on Great Lakes waters. Read the full story by the Iosco County News-Herald.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-fisheries

Ken Gibbons

A new report is recommending ways to protect an artesian aquifer in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, following a controversial proposal, that’s now being fought in court, to bottle and sell water from an artesian well in a Lake Superior watershed. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-report

Ken Gibbons

A new bill in Congress would require the U.S. Coast Guard to train and prepare for oil spills on the St. Lawrence River. The bill seeks to extend the Coast Guard’s required readiness levels for the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and some Great Lakes tributaries. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-bill

Ken Gibbons

Researchers with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission say their surveys have found that many more endangered species could be affected by a proposed pipeline in Wisconsin than the oil company found in its own surveys. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-oil

Ken Gibbons

Great Lakes steel production rose by 5,000 tons last week though output fell nationally. Locally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 634,000 tons of metal in the week that ended Jan. 22, up from 629,000 tons the previous week. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-steel

Ken Gibbons

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 30 below zero. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, and northeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until Noon CST today. * IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 20 minutes.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Michigan students now can test watershed quality and model how groundwater flows in three dimensions with a new state classroom initiative. The Environmental Education Resource Lending Station became available in early December to Michigan educators through the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Classroom Initiative.

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...BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES AND LOW WIND CHILLS EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... .Bitterly cold temperatures combined with west to northwest winds will result in hazardous conditions for anyone outdoors without appropriate winter clothing tonight through Wednesday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY...

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Restore, Release: The Great Lakes Now Episode Quiz

Great Lakes Now tries to make every episode interesting and educational.

In “Restore, Release,” volunteers work to preserve a historic Great Lakes lighthouse, a Chicago community finds new life through embracing its past, and high school students learn about Native American culture with the help of lake sturgeon.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/restore-release-test-great-lakes-now-episode-quiz-2201/

Maya Sundaresan

Visit a Lighthouse: Explore history in one of the many preserved lighthouses around the Great Lakes

Go right to the list of lighthouses here. 

For Patrick McKinstry, his love of lighthouses began when he was 4 or 5 years old.  

He was on a family trip at the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse in Mackinaw City, Michigan, and asking his mother what it was and if he could go in. 

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Natasha Blakely

...BITTER COLD WIND CHILL READINGS EXPECTED TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING... .An arctic air mass combined with light northwest winds will produce bitter cold wind chill readings of 20 below to 35 below zero tonight into Wednesday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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The calendar has flipped to 2022. Our staff members are ready to tackle new projects in the coming 12 months, which also happens to mark Sea Grant’s 50th anniversary. Before they move more deeply into this anniversary, however, some staff members took a moment to retain the glow of their favorite 2021 project. Our resident fish and aquaculture maven—Sharon Moen who heads up the Eat Wisconsin Fish initiative—had a swimmingly successful effort to share for our last post in this series.

I dubbed my favorite 2021 effort, “Finding Fish in Wisconsin.” This quest for insights and interviews had me talking with commercial fishers, food-fish farmers and fish processors across the state in four bursts (see map). At different times, Wisconsin Sea Grant colleagues Bonnie Willison, Jennifer Smith, Titus Seilheimer and Marie Zhuikov were there, too.

My goal was to learn about the needs of Wisconsin’s food fish-producing industries and how Wisconsin Sea Grant could support their success, while gathering material to create fish producer profiles so that consumers can better understand who is producing their food and why fish from Wisconsin are safe to eat, a sustainable food choice and economically important.

While the conversations we had with fish producers are guiding Eat Wisconsin Fish activities in 2022, Willison has already turned some of the interviews into short videos that are available on Wisconsin Sea Grant’s YouTube playlist and elsewhere. If you are more into podcasts, Zhuikov wove interview excerpts into episodes of The Fish Dish, a new Wisconsin Sea Grant podcast.

This map, adapted from the Eat Wisconsin Fish website, shows Moen’s travels for the Finding Fish in Wisconsin effort. #1: Finding fish in Bayfield County (June) focused on Lake Superior commercial fisheries and processors. #2: Finding fish across the diagonal (July) spanned visits to farms raising shrimp, salmon, trout, yellow perch and more. #3: Finding fish near Sheboygan (August) was inspired by a tilapia farm and broadened to include visits with trout farmers, a fish smoking business and a commercial fisher. #4: Finding fish around Door County (November) included insights into the international fish roe trade and commercial fishing in Green Bay and Lake Michigan.

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Some communities in Michigan opt out of fluoridation

This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.

By Danielle James, Great Lakes Echo

Even as community water systems are praised by the state for maintaining fluoride levels, others are still holding out.

Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by about 25% in children and adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/communities-michigan-fluoridation/

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The National Park Service recently placed Fishtown on the National Register of Historic Places, an official list of over 96,000 historic properties nationwide considered worthy of preservation.

The post Fishing heritage in Leland gets preservation boost first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Echo

http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/01/25/fishing-heritage-in-leland-gets-preservation-boost/

Guest Contributor

...COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND WILL RESULT IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING... The combination of temperatures dropping into the single digits below zero, and northwest winds of 5 to 10 mph will produce wind chill readings to around 20 below zero at times late tonight into Tuesday morning. The lowest wind chills will occur between 500 am

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...BITTER COLD WIND CHILL READINGS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING... The combination of temperatures dropping into the single digits below zero, and northwest winds of 5 to 10 mph will produce wind chill readings in the teens to near 20 below zero late tonight into Tuesday morning. Wind chill readings this low can produce

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Wind Turbines: Where do they cluster around the Great Lakes?

Huge breezes are commonplace around the Great Lakes, which is part of why the region makes a good location for wind turbines.

Though wind power has been utilized for centuries, it has only been harnessed as a widespread alternative energy source as recently as the 1990s.

In 2016, the United States Geological Survey began tracking wind turbines.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/wind-turbines-great-lakes/

Alex Hill

Richard Gray, 35, died Monday from a tragic accident aboard the 1,000 – foot freighter Walter J. McCarthy, off the shore of Gary, Indiana. Gray was a graduate of Great Lakes Maritime Academy. He also served as 1st Vice President of the International Shipmasters’ Association Grand Traverse Lodge #23. Read the full story by WWTV – WWUP-TV Traverse City.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-remembering-shipmaster

Patrick Canniff

Throughout January, ice across the basin expanded beyond early projections that suggested the winter of 2022 might feature near-record low ice coverage. Now, maximum ice cover is expected to peak at 49 percent, a substantial jump from initial National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasting model. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-ice-cover

Patrick Canniff

Research in a set of unique Canadian lakes is backing up a strange consequence of evolutionary theory often predicted but never shown. Given the right circumstances, fish get decades old but they don’t age. Read the full story by Canadian Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-lake-trout

Patrick Canniff

Internal documents reviewed by The Intercept describe how Enbridge launched an initiative known as Opposition Driven Operational Threats, or ODOT, to focus the company’s attention on Indigenous opposition to Line 3 and Line 5, two controversial pipelines that transport carbon-intensive tar sands oil between Canada and the United States. Read the full story by The Intercept.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-enbridge

Patrick Canniff

The Minnesota Environmental Partnership (MEP), the state’s largest coalition of environmental and conservation groups, proposed investments that would result in immediate and long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and improvements in Minnesotans’ quality of life. Read the full story by Grand Rapids Herald-Review.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-climate

Patrick Canniff

Due to a Michigan Department of Environment Great Lakes and Energy 2019 decision to amend portions of the state’s Safe Water Drinking Act involving lead and copper rules, the South Haven Area Water and Sewer Authority must replace lead service lines leading to homes and businesses. Read the full story by The South Haven Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-lead

Patrick Canniff

Enbridge Energy currently operates the Line 5 pipeline, which runs under the Straits of Mackinac, and now they’re proposing to replace it with a tunnel to run the pipeline through. But experts say the current plan has major safety flaws. Read the full story by WSJM-TV –  St. Joseph, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-line-5

Patrick Canniff

Our Latest Episode: Watch the Great Lakes Now program here

If you’re new to Great Lakes Now, find our latest episode below and ALL our monthly shows here.

If you’re a regular viewer of our monthly program on your local PBS station or our YouTube channel, thanks!

If you were looking for our show on Detroit Public Television on Wednesday, Jan.

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL END THIS MORNING... Light snow will gradually taper off from northwest to southeast by late morning. Additional snow accumulations less than an inch are expected. Roads will be snow covered and slippery, as cold temperatures will limit the effectiveness of melting agents. Be sure to allow

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI1263DD511C08.SpecialWeatherStatement.1263DD516BB8WI.GRBSPSGRB.de0c4c6b7085145142eb0fd92806ea75

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL RESULT IN SLIPPERY ROADS THIS MORNING... Light snow will gradually taper off from northwest to southeast during the morning. During the rush hour, a steady light snow will still be falling over parts of central Wisconsin, the Fox Valley and lakeshore areas. Additional snow accumulations of a half inch to an inch can be expected in those areas.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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