...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Northeast winds around 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. * WHERE...Brown County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects and lightweight shelters. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few

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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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...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 115 PM CDT... Strong northeast winds funneling down the Bay will produce sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph with local gusts over 45 mph possible. The winds could cause localized tree damage. These strong winds are causing flooding along parts of the Fox and East Rivers, and along parts of the Bay from Suamico to Bay Shore

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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 National Weather Service in Green Bay WI has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Wisconsin... Fox River at Green Bay affecting Brown County. .Strong northeast winds are pushing water down the Bay towards the mouth of the Fox River, causing high water levels there and also upstream along the East River. .

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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 port of Thunder Bay has seen a noticeable uptick in ocean-going vessel traffic this season so far. Tim Heney, chief executive officer for the Port of Thunder Bay, said that restrictions around the COVID-19 pandemic are not really slowing things down. Read the full story by the Chronicle Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200429-thunder-bay

Jill Estrada

Fishing and Freighters: Great Lakes industries take COVID-19 economic hit

Lake Erie fishing charters reel from stay at home orders, and lake freighters idle due to industry shutdowns.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/covid-19-coronavirus-fishing-freighters-great-lakes-industries/

Gary Wilson

Lessons in Resilience: As climate and the economy changes, Duluth steps up

Perched on the western shore of the world’s greatest lake, an inland port city offers lessons for resilience in uncertain times.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-climate-change-duluth/

Ensia

April 29, 2020

By Jennifer A. Smith

Now in its fifth year, the annual Water@UW-Madison symposium has become a vital event that gives attendees a chance to hear about a broad swath of cutting-edge water research and outreach. With many short sessions, it’s one of the fastest and most informative ways to learn about the state of Wisconsin’s water and what’s being done to protect this critical resource.

The online event takes place Tuesday, May 5. (Photo illustration: Water@UW-Madison)

This year, like most other conferences in the era of COVID-19, Water@UW-Madison is going virtual. The online event will take place Tuesday, May 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This year’s theme is “Working Together to Address Water Challenges: UW-Madison and State Government.”

Attendees can participate via Zoom or, if they prefer, by watching the Water@UW-Madison YouTube channel. One need not be affiliated with the university to participate. Currently, over 250 people have registered for the Zoom sessions.

Said David Koser, a project assistant at the UW-Madison Aquatic Sciences Center (home to Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institute), “The symposium is going to be informative and a lot of fun. UW-Madison’s partnerships and collaborations with state government are key to the health and well-being of the people of Wisconsin. Our speakers will have great material to share, and we hope that this event will show the strength of our existing relationships as well as help build new ones.” Koser helps coordinate this signature event.

Numerous Aquatic Sciences Center staff are involved in this year’s event. Director Jim Hurley and Associate Director Jen Hauxwell will both present sessions, and Hauxwell is chair-elect for the Water@UW-Madison group. During intermissions, virtual attendees will see water-related artwork chosen by Anne Moser, senior special librarian for the Wisconsin Water Library.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will welcome attendees, and Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes has provided a video introduction. There will be an in-depth presentation by Rep. Todd Novak and Rep. Katrina Shankland of the Wisconsin State Assembly. These two legislators lead the Speaker’s Water Quality Task Force.

For complete information, including an agenda, visit https://water.wisc.edu/2020springsymposium/.

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News Release – WRI

News Release – WRI

https://www.wri.wisc.edu/news/asc-plays-key-role-in-water-symposium/

Jennifer Smith

Now in its fifth year, the annual Water@UW-Madison symposium has become a vital event that gives attendees a chance to hear about a broad swath of cutting-edge water research and outreach. With many short sessions, it’s one of the fastest and most informative ways to learn about the state of Wisconsin’s water and what’s being done to protect this critical resource.

The online symposium will be held Tuesday, May 5. (Photo illustration: Water@UW-Madison)

This year, like most other conferences in the era of COVID-19, Water@UW-Madison is going virtual. The online event will take place Tuesday, May 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This year’s theme is “Working Together to Address Water Challenges: UW-Madison and State Government.”

Attendees can participate via Zoom or, if they prefer, by watching the Water@UW-Madison YouTube channel. One need not be affiliated with the university to participate. Currently, over 250 people have registered for the Zoom sessions.

Said David Koser, a project assistant at the UW-Madison Aquatic Sciences Center (home to Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institute), “The symposium is going to be informative and a lot of fun. UW-Madison’s partnerships and collaborations with state government are key to the health and well-being of the people of Wisconsin. Our speakers will have great material to share, and we hope that this event will show the strength of our existing relationships as well as help build new ones.” Koser helps coordinate this signature event.

Numerous Aquatic Sciences Center staff are involved in this year’s event. Director Jim Hurley and Associate Director Jen Hauxwell will both present sessions, and Hauxwell is chair-elect for the Water@UW-Madison group. During intermissions, virtual attendees will see water-related artwork chosen by Anne Moser, senior special librarian for the Wisconsin Water Library.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will welcome attendees, and Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes has provided a video introduction. There will be an in-depth presentation by Rep. Todd Novak and Rep. Katrina Shankland of the Wisconsin State Assembly. These two legislators lead the Speaker’s Water Quality Task Force.

For complete information, including an agenda, visit https://water.wisc.edu/2020springsymposium/.

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News Releases – Wisconsin Sea Grant

News Releases – Wisconsin Sea Grant

https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/aquatic-sciences-center-plays-key-role-in-wateruw-madison-symposium/

Jennifer Smith

...LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...Shoreline areas of the Bay of Green Bay in Oconto and Brown counties. * LAKESHORE FLOODING...Northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph will cause water levels to rise on the bayshore from

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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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...LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Green Bay has issued a Lakeshore Flood Warning, which is in effect until 10 PM CDT this evening. The Lakeshore Flood Advisory is no longer in effect. * LOCATIONS...Shoreline areas of the Bay of Green Bay in Oconto

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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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...LAKESHORE FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... * LOCATIONS...Shoreline areas of the Bay of Green Bay in Marinette, Oconto and Brown counties. * LAKESHORE FLOODING...Northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 35 mph will cause water levels to rise on the bayshore from

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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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...LAKESHORE FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... * LOCATIONS...Shoreline areas of the Bay of Green Bay in Marinette, Oconto and Brown counties. * LAKESHORE FLOODING...Northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 35 mph will cause water levels to rise on the bayshore from

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

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The potential solutions to address longtime flooding and erosion issues along a problematic 120-kilometre stretch of Lake Erie shoreline in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, could top $217 million, but no commitments have been made. Read the full story by The Chatham Daily News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200428-lake-erie-erosion

Samantha Stanton

One month ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it would ease up on enforcing some of the more routine procedural violations of pollution laws. But the Chicago-based Environmental Policy & Law Center said it has crunched data and documented declines in enforcement of Clean Water Act violations across the Great Lakes region for several years now. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200428-epa-enforcement

Samantha Stanton

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced a change that removes the legal foundation for regulations on mercury and other toxins emitted from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The change, some experts worry, might set a precedent for rolling back pollution standards that have improved air quality in the Great Lakes area. Read the full story by the Indy Star.

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Samantha Stanton

...LAKESHORE FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... * LOCATIONS...Bayshore areas of Marinette, Oconto and Brown counties. * LAKESHORE FLOODING...Northeast winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph will cause water levels to rise on the

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

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A Wisconsin Sea Grant-funded project has helped improve the state’s capability to test for PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and led to the discovery of their widespread presence in rainwater across the country.

The project is led by Martin Shafer, senior scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the and Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH). Shafer is also a principal researcher with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), the nation’s longest-running program for monitoring the chemistry of precipitation, which is housed at the WSLH.

Shafer said the presence of PFAS in everything from the food supply, personal care products, lakes and the atmosphere is a “growing crisis.” PFAS exposure is linked to human health concerns, including compromised immunity, low birth weight, endocrine disruption and cancer.

Martin Shafer. Image credit: Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene

“Everyone in the world, including those in northern Canada and remote regions, all have substantial levels of PFAS in their bloodstreams,” Shafer said. “Some people believe PFAS are a significant threat to human health.”

These chemicals get into the environment from point sources like firefighting foam and industrial processes. Shafer said an estimated 4,500 to 5,000 PFAS compounds exist, but federal regulations currently only target two: PFOS and PFOA.

With help from the Sea Grant funding, the WSLH can now measure levels of 36 PFAS compounds, which is the highest available in the state. “Two other labs in Wisconsin can test for PFAS, but they can’t offer the breadth of compounds nor the breadth of matrices that the state lab can,” Shafer said.

Rainwater is another source of PFAS that, until recently, has received limited study. In his researcher role with the federal NADP, Shafer is in an ideal situation to study the cycling of PFAS in the atmosphere and rainwater deposition.

Precipitation samples from 263 sites of the NADP National Trends Network across the country “appear” on his lab doorstep every weekday. Studying samples from 31 of those sites, Shafer found measurable levels of PFAS in almost all, some up to four or five nanograms per liter.

“Considering that Wisconsin just promulgated an action level of two nanograms per liter and a regulatory level of 20 for PFAS, that’s not insignificant,” he said. “We showed that deposition from rainfall events integrated over a year could represent and supply a large fraction of PFAS loading to large lakes, and similarly, to terrestrial environments that are not receiving any other point-source loadings of PFAS.”

Shafer presented his rainfall study results at the American Geophysical Union meeting last fall in San Francisco, which resulted in media interest from outlets like “The Guardian,” and The Weather Channel. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also took note and will be using these data in their deposition models.

Shafer is now gearing up to study the role of wastewater treatment facilities in disseminating PFAS. Sea Grant is funding a graduate student to work on this project and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is providing funding for analysis at the WSLH. Samples of wastewater influents, effluents, biosolids and air emissions will be collected and analyzed.

Because the wastewater treatment facilities collect and concentrate wastes from many different sources, Shafer is concerned that they could unwittingly be a point-source for PFAS pollution. Spreading biosolids produced at the treatment plant on agricultural fields could result in further dissemination with potential for contamination of water resources and crops.

With funding and collaboration with the DNR, Shafer will also be studying how PFAS are distributed and transformed in the atmosphere. He will be collecting PFAS precipitation samples from seven NADP sites in Wisconsin for a three-and-a-half-month period, every week.

“That will be one of the more intensive studies of PFAS done anywhere,” Shafer said. He’s also working with several northeastern states to establish a similar project.

“We need to understand what is driving the distribution pattern of PFAS in the atmosphere — what compounds are contributing to the load, how can we fingerprint sources – a whole list of things where further work would need to be done,” Shafer said.

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News Releases – Wisconsin Sea Grant

News Releases – Wisconsin Sea Grant

https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/sea-grant-research-addresses-the-growing-crisis-of-pfas-exposure-finds-pfas-in-rainwater/

Marie Zhuikov

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central and northeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until 10 AM CDT this morning.

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

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...LAKESHORE FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... The National Weather Service in Green Bay has issued a Lakeshore Flood Advisory, which is in effect from 10 PM this evening to 10 PM CDT Wednesday. * LOCATIONS...Bayshore areas of Marinette, Oconto and Brown

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

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...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Visibility one quarter to one half mile in dense fog. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central and northeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until 10 AM CDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.

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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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...PATCHY DENSE FOG EXPECTED OVERNIGHT... Look for widespread fog across northeast Wisconsin overnight from recent rainfall combined with light winds and mostly clear skies. The fog could be locally dense, with visibilities approaching one quarter of a mile at times. Motorists should exercise caution when traveling overnight, 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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...PATCHY DENSE FOG EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP THIS EVENING... Look for widespread fog to form quickly this evening from recent rainfall combined with light winds and mostly clear skies. The fog could be locally dense, with visibilities approaching one quarter of a mile at times. Motorists should exercise caution when traveling tonight, as

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

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Great Lakes Learning: What grows in the Great Lakes?

As the author of Great Lakes Now’s Collection of Lesson Plans, educational consultant Gary Abud Jr. is now providing more support for parents, teachers and caregivers who want to incorporate Great Lakes learning into their time with children and students. His series of writings can be found HERE along with the lesson plans and a Virtual Field Trip.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/great-lakes-learning-toxic-algae-harmful-algal-blooms/

Gary Abud Jr.

Nearly halfway into a 10-year pledge to combat the toxic algae that turns Lake Erie a ghastly shade of green, Ohio has made little progress. The governor has authorized an ambitious plan that this year will begin offering farmers financial incentives to adopt new agriculture practices and will create a network of wetlands to capture and filter runoff from fields. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200427-algae

Margo Davis

The practice of holding Chinook salmon in holding pens in the Great Lakes began in the St. Joseph River, which feeds Lake Michigan. It is now widely accepted as a great way to reduce predation on the valuable salmon stocks not only in the Great Lakes but also on the West Coast. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200427-pen

Margo Davis

Six years after the City of Flint switched its water source to the Flint River, ultimately beginning the Flint Water Crisis, the city is still struggling to address critical infrastructure needs, one of which is a secondary or back-up water source. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Flint, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200427-flint

Margo Davis

Trout season opened across most of Ontario on Saturday, but the owner and co-host of a Canadian fishing TV show is urging anglers in southern Ontario to reconsider casting their lines. With many public boat launches closed, there is concern that limited riverbanks will be busy and anglers won’t be able to maintain physical distance. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200427-fishing

Margo Davis

In 2019 Republican Mike DeWine got the Ohio General Assembly to fund an unprecedented, statewide commitment to water quality branded under the moniker H2Ohio. Now, because of costs associated with the coronavirus pandemic, it’s in limbo. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200427-h2ohio

Margo Davis