To meet the growing enthusiasm for Québec City as a cruise destination, the Port of Québec now has a modern terminal as welcoming as the city itself. The cruise terminal was built following consultation with the local cruise industry, which had identified the need for a new terminal to improve the reception of cruise passengers in Québec City and ensure a high satisfaction rate. Read the full story by PortNews.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-portofquebec-terminal

Hannah Reynolds

Members of the Superior Watershed Partnership’s Great Lakes Climate Corps, take part in a habitat-improvement project Friday at McCarty’s Cove in Marquette. The day’s activities were to include pulling invasive vegetation and planting native beach grass. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-habitatrestoration-marquette

Hannah Reynolds

The appetite to get back on the water was clear as Welland’s Canadian Tire Floatfest broke two records last weekend on the Welland Canal, says Angie St. Pierre, the event’s safety and security co-ordinator. “We had more than 2,500 people registered, and approximately 1,800 floated which are both record numbers. said St. Pierre.  Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-tirefloatfest

Hannah Reynolds

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Brown, west central Kewaunee, northern Calumet, northeastern Winnebago, southeastern Waupaca, Outagamie, eastern Shawano and northwestern Manitowoc Counties through 800 PM CDT... At 721 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Navarino Wildlife Area to near New London

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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=WI1264004BE058.SpecialWeatherStatement.1264004BFED0WI.GRBSPSGRB.1554f03a28dc7c63a4bc66fe859828ce

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A Michigan regulatory panel said Thursday that it needs more information about safety risks before it can rule on Enbridge Energy’s plan to extend an oil pipeline through a tunnel beneath a waterway linking two of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-greatlakesoiltunnelplan

Hannah Reynolds

When ships come to the St. Lawrence River, it’s what they leave behind that’s an issue for environmentalists, and members of Congress. They’ve penned a letter, hoping for change to protect what’s in the Thousand Islands. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-stricterballastcontrols

Hannah Reynolds

Canada’s Invasive Species Centre (ISC) hopes to eradicate an aquatic plant that forms extremely dense floating mats of vegetation that shades out native vegetation and decreases plant biodiversity first discovered in the Welland River two years ago. Said Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority outreach worker Kerry Royer, “We certainly wouldn’t want it getting into the Niagara River and then move into the Great Lakes.” Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-waterchestnut

Hannah Reynolds

Residents of eastern Quebec probably remember the exceptional weather conditions and the very high tide of Dec. 6, 2010. The combination caused flooding along the shores of the St. Lawrence River and millions of dollars in damage to public and private infrastructure. Researchers are now asking when might the exceptional high tides of the St. Lawrence River strike next? Read the full story by the National Post.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-hightidegreatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

This year’s Tall Ships Festival in Cleveland will include some of the more disgusting denizens of the Great Lakes – sea lampreys. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission will be on hand with a half-dozen sea lampreys in a tank to publicize the destructive nature of the invasive species and why it’s important to continue controlling its population. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.  

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-clevelandsealamprey

Hannah Reynolds

Fisheries researchers go to great lengths, or sometimes deep waters, to seek answers to their questions. Recently, an interdisciplinary team of scientists aboard the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) research vessel Lake Char discovered the deepest occurrence of lake char (or lake trout) spawning in the Great Lakes at a depth of over 400 feet off the north side of Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Negaunee, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-egghunt

Hannah Reynolds

Michigan panel wants more details on Great Lakes oil tunnel plan

By John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan regulatory panel said Thursday that it needs more information about safety risks before it can rule on Enbridge Energy’s plan to extend an oil pipeline through a tunnel beneath a waterway linking two of the Great Lakes.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/ap-michigan-panel-details-great-lakes-pipeline-tunnel/

The Associated Press

Only half of Great Lakes residents are aware of advisories for safely eating fish

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

By Cameryn Cass, Great Lakes Echo

The Great Lakes Basin draws millions of anglers each year to fish in its lakes, rivers and streams.

In addition, millions more of the region’s residents consume those fish.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/great-lakes-residents-advisories-eating-fish/

Great Lakes Echo

Wisconsin court bats down challenge to Kohler golf course

By Harm Venhuizen, Associated Press/Report for America

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled June 30 that a conservation group couldn’t challenge an agency’s decision to sell state park land for the construction of a high-end golf course along the shores of Lake Michigan.

Opponents said the ruling will make it much harder for the public to challenge decisions of state agencies.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/ap-wisconsin-court-kohler-golf-course/

The Associated Press

Modern sea lamprey control pits technology against the invaders

After 100 years of coordinated effort, 98% of all the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes have been eliminated, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the organization tasked with the management of the invasive species within the basin.

Unfortunately, the remaining 2% is enough to start the cycle all over again if left unchecked, and current technology “does not make complete eradication possible,” said Marc Gaden, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission communication director and legislative liaison.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/modern-sea-lamprey-control-pits-technology-against-the-invaders/

Kathy Johnson

New laws make it easier for communities to access state financing for water infrastructure

By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio

Bipartisan legislation to help cities get money to fix their water systems has been signed by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A lot of Michigan’s drinking water systems are in bad shape.

“We have been very behind in maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure across the state,” Charlotte Jameson with the Michigan Environmental Council.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/new-laws-community-access-water-infrastructure/

Michigan Radio

It’s summer in Wisconsin and with boating, beachgoing and fishing a lot of attention is being given to surface water, which is a true treasure in this state. Another treasure isn’t visible but is just as valuable—groundwater. Wisconsin has an estimated 1.2 quadrillion gallons of groundwater, from which two-thirds of the state’s 5.6 million residents draw drinking water. The University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute (WRI) is funding two new groundwater-focused projects. The two-year projects got underway July 1.

Both projects are based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Department of Geoscience’s Professor Michael Cardiff is leading the first. It will document rural perspectives (attitudes, perception and values) related to groundwater issues, and the variability of these perspectives within the state. This project will implement the “Wisconsin’s Waters Survey”—a community-sourced public survey to be delivered to a range of rural communities.

As Cardiff noted in the project proposal, rural land covers most of the state, overlies the majority of groundwater and “the range of issues that may be important to the rural public is vast, from quality concerns such as nitrate and microbial contamination, to quantity concerns that include agricultural irrigation needs and impacts of groundwater to springs and streamflows.” Despite those factors, he said, there have been few efforts to document rural perspectives.

The second project will examine the causes of groundwater flooding, which leads to the loss of farmland and permanent inundation of homes. Such flooding can happen when extremely flat, internally or poorly drained landscapes get hit with a quantity of rain that doesn’t otherwise drain away, infiltrate the soil without flooding or dissipate through the atmosphere.

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An example in southern Wisconsin of groundwater flooding that happened in 2008. Photo by Madeline Gotkowitz

Steve Loheide and co-investigator Ken Potter, both with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will track flood records in Dane and Columbia counties from 1936 to 2022, identify what primarily caused such flooding and how those factors have changed through time and investigate whether methods such as strategic tree planting can build flood resilience.

 

The post Two new research projects about Wisconsin’s groundwater announced first appeared on WRI.

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News Release | WRI

News Release | WRI

https://www.wri.wisc.edu/news/two-new-research-projects-about-wisconsins-groundwater-announced/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-new-research-projects-about-wisconsins-groundwater-announced

Moira Harrington

New laws and tech are changing the tides for hydroelectricity in Indiana

By Christopher Parker, National Newspaper Association Foundation News Fellows Program

Great Lakes Now is publishing this story in conjunction with the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s News Fellows Program. In March, during NNA’s Community Newspaper Leadership Summit, a group of student journalists met with experts and policy leaders in Washington D.C.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/laws-tech-hydroelectricity-energy-indiana/

Christopher Parker

Native freshwater mussels have experienced dramatic population declines in the Detroit River due to habitat degradation, water pollution and the introduction of invasive species. Central Michigan University Ph.D. student Shay Keretz will be focusing her dissertation on if and where native mussels remain in the Detroit and St. Clair River. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-mussels

Theresa Gruninger

Illinois fishery managers rebrand four invasive species of carp as copi. They hope the new name will help the bountiful fish land on more restaurant menus and grocery lists and eventually slow the carp’s march toward the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WBUR-FM – Boston, MA.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-copi

Theresa Gruninger

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio EPA are at odds over the amount of phosphorus the city of Euclid’s wastewater treatment plant can discharge into Lake Erie, and the outcome of their disagreement could have broad repercussions for sewage plant operators elsewhere in Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-phosphorus-dishcarge

Theresa Gruninger

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed a plan to manage the Atlantic salmon population in Lake Ontario with an emphasis on improving the survival of stocked fish and increasing the number of adult Atlantic salmon that return to tributaries to spawn. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-atlantic-salmon

Theresa Gruninger

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed a plan to manage the Atlantic salmon population in Lake Ontario with an emphasis on improving the survival of stocked fish and increasing the number of adult Atlantic salmon that return to tributaries to spawn. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-atlantic-salmon

Theresa Gruninger

A shipwreck that lies submerged in Lake Michigan, about 13 miles northeast of the Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse in Wisconsin, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full story the Sheboygan Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-abiah

Theresa Gruninger

Following its addition to Michigan’s invasive species watch list last year, beech leaf disease has been found in an area of St. Clair County, according to the Michigan departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. 

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-beech-leaf

Theresa Gruninger

Indiana might be changing its tone toward wind energy

By Kyla Russell, National Newspaper Association Foundation News Fellows Program

Great Lakes Now is publishing this story in conjunction with the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s News Fellows Program. In March, during NNA’s Community Newspaper Leadership Summit, a group of student journalists met with experts and policy leaders in Washington D.C.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/indiana-changing-tone-toward-wind-energy/

Kyla Russell

2022 Forecast: Smaller than average amount of harmful cyanobacterial blooms for Lake Erie, but some hot spots possible

By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/2022-forecast-harmful-algal-blooms-forecast-lake-erie/

Michigan Radio

Great Lakes Moment: The imperiled mussels of the Detroit River

Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit Public Television.

Native freshwater mussels have experienced dramatic population declines in the Great Lakes due to habitat degradation, water pollution and the introduction of invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/great-lakes-moment-mussels-detroit-river/

John Hartig

In our newest TikTok, Echo reporter Caroline Miller discusses a recent study that documents the first sighting of an invasive species, European frogbit, in Wisconsin and says that it could threaten native plants, fish and invertebrates.

The post Rising water makes Lake Michigan wetlands vulnerable to invaders: TikTok edition first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Echo

Great Lakes Echo

http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/07/04/rising-water-makes-lake-michigan-wetlands-vulnerable-to-invaders-tiktok-edition/

Guest Contributor

Energy News Roundup: Indiana sees price hikes, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio struggle with solar

Keep up with energy-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.

Click on the headline to read the full story:

 

Illinois:

  • A decade after ‘EVTown,’ Rivian is making an Illinois city’s electric vehicle vision a reality – Energy News Network

Officials in Normal, Illinois, see Rivian’s growth and corporate culture as a key part of the city’s long-term sustainability plan.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/energy-news-roundup-prices-hikes-solar-struggle/

Natasha Blakely

Homes, Invaders: The Great Lakes Now Episode Quiz

Great Lakes Now episodes often explore the human element of the Great Lakes along with the critters residing in the waters.

In “Homes, Invaders,” learn about how sea lampreys are an invasive and dangerous species and the efforts that are being done to control the sea lamprey population in the Great Lakes.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/homes-invaders-episode-quiz/

Tynnetta Harris

A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only about half the people in the Great Lakes states are aware of fish consumption advisories and around five million people exceed the recommended fish intake. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-fish-advisories

Theresa Gruninger

With more than 12.8 million tons of recyclable plastic packaging materials landfilled every year, cleaning up and ending that waste and litter from entering the Great Lakes watershed is the top priority of a Council of the Great Lakes Region initiative. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-plastic-waste

Theresa Gruninger

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced 16 K-12 institutions, school districts and educational partnerships have been awarded $205,028 to develop Great Lakes-based science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational programs for students. Among the awardees is the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, which will receive $20,000 to help propel new Project Based Learning units in local schools. Read the full story by the News-Review.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-stem-education

Theresa Gruninger

A public meeting will be held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula town of Lake Linden Tuesday, July 12 to present plans for removing vast amounts of crushed copper mining ore that’s slowly swallowing a stretch of Lake Superior coastline. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-lake-superior-reef

Theresa Gruninger

Since 2014, the Regional Science Consortium has worked to test the waters of Lake Erie for harmful algal blooms, and they’ve shared the test results with state and local authorities to warn the public of potential dangers but without grant funding, their work cannot be done. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-hab-impact

Theresa Gruninger

The Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth, Minnesota has been awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to continue studying the bottom of the food chain in the Great Lakes — work that includes collecting water samples and boring into lake sediment to learn hundreds of years of history. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-phytoplankton

Theresa Gruninger

This Fourth of July holiday weekend, Wisconsin DNR staff and volunteers with Clean Boats, Clean Waters will be at boat launches statewide for their 2022 Landing Blitz, reminding the public of ways boaters can help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species, which pose great risks to the health of our lakes and fisheries. Read the full story by the Antigo Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-ais

Theresa Gruninger

Soaring Fertilizer Prices Could Deliver ‘Silver Lining’ For Emissions, But Farmers Struggle to Limit Use

By Christopher Bonasia, The Energy Mix

This story originally appeared in The Energy Mix and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

The sudden rise in fertilizer prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have implications for global emissions by reducing how much of it farmers use in their fields.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/soaring-fertilizer-prices-emissions-farmers/

The Energy Mix

DNR monitoring crappie kill at Loon Lake in NE Indiana

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (AP) — State Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists have collected fish and water samples at a northeastern Indiana lake as the result of a fish kill involving thousands of crappies, the agency said June 23.

The fish kill began last week at Loon Lake in Whitley and Noble counties.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/ap-crappie-kill-loon-lake/

The Associated Press