This year’s Manure Expo, held at the fairgrounds in Fulton County, Ohio, showcased the high-tech transformation of manure management. New tools on display at the expo aim to solve the issue of nutrient runoff that contributes to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie’s western basin. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-manure-tech
On late Tuesday night, a 1,000-foot tugboat, Presque Isle, was travelling along the southeast side of Neebish Island on the St. Marys River when it had maneuverability issues before dropping anchor to investigate the problem. According to public health officials, around 14-20 liters of hydraulic oil were spilled in the incident, though the oil sheen is no longer an issue. Read the full story by Soo Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-oil-spill
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has released the 2024 fish stocking numbers for inland waterbodies and the Great Lakes. The Wisconsin DNR stocked more than 3 million fish in lakes Superior and Michigan, including more than 1,000 lake sturgeon. Read the full story by The Star News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-fish-stocking
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District will start a maintenance dredging project at Manistique Harbor in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as early as August 7. The $1.865 million project will remove 92,500 cubic yards of sediment and place it along the west breakwater beach area below the ordinary high-water mark. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-dredging-project
More than 70 volunteers joined Save the River’s Trash Free River Days Weekend to remove 1,501 pounds of trash from the Upper St. Lawrence River last week. The volunteers retrieved a variety of trash which would otherwise contribute to rising microplastic levels in the St. Lawrence River or be consumed by fish and birds. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-river-cleanup
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) completed more than 280 fisheries surveys across the state in 2024. Collecting key data on Michigan’s fisheries is critical for successful management of the state’s diverse fisheries, though critical fisheries management activities are at risk of reduction due to funding shortfalls, according to the Michigan DNR. Read the full story by the Iosco County News Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-fisheries-surveys
A business in Sheboygan, Wisconsin’s “Malibu of the Midwest” is known for being the state’s first surf shop. People have been surfing on Lake Michigan since the early 1950s, and Sheboygan surfers began forming surf clubs by the ’60s, though the city did not have a surf shop until 1998. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-surfing-great-lakes
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) shared a video of freshwater jellyfish at Presque Isle Bay in Lake Erie. The incredibly rare jellyfish is super hard to find, according to the DEP. Read the full story by KDKA-TV – Pittsburgh, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250801-freshwater-jellyfish
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in the Great Lakes region. Check back for more PFAS news roundups every other week on our website.
A recent study published in eBioMedicine continues to show the correlation between exposure to PFAS and Type 2 diabetes.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/07/study-shows-correlation-between-forever-chemicals-and-type-2-diabetes/
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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How did you get to work today?
Maybe, like 14% of Americans, you didn’t have to go anywhere because you work from home. But most people do need some form of transportation to earn a living. By far the biggest group is the 69% of people who drive to work alone.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/07/why-we-dont-bike-like-the-dutch-yet/
The Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe-Anishinaabe’s team of biologists are keeping Lake Superior’s waters clean — while sounding the alarm on harmful algal blooms and climate-driven water threats. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-clean-local-water
The federal government recently stopped approving offshore wind projects in the ocean, but the Great Lakes may provide another option for producing clean energy in the region. Read the full story by The Conversation.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-greatlakes-wind
Michigan environmental officials found a toxic chemical coming from the Gelman Plume, a contaminated plume of groundwater underneath the Ann Arbor area, in six residential water wells in Scio Township during annual state testing. Read the full story by Michigan Public.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-gelman-plume-chemical
The fourth annual Mackinac Bridge Swim began just after sunrise on Saturday, July 26. Over 250 swimmers participated in the 4.5-mile swim across the Straits of Mackinac. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-mackinac-bridge-swim
Six swimming beaches at state parks in New York are closed, according to state officials. Four of the beaches are closed due to harmful algal blooms and two beaches tested high for E.coli, according to the latest water quality report. Read the full story by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-ny-beaches-closed
The SS Alpena, built 16 years before the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald and launched in 1942 under the name SS Leon Fraser, was built in Ecorse, Michigan, and has been hauling bulk cargo ever since. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-ss-alpena
A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection summer intern was at the docks of the Presque Isle Marina when he found a rare invertebrate, Craspedacusta sowerbyi, swimming through Marina Lake, part of Presque Isle Bay. Read the full story by WJW-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-freshwater-jellyfish
Nearly 70 volunteers were out at Station Beach in Kincardine, Ontario, with buckets, sieves and trash pickers in hand, as part of a beach clean-up organized by the Lake Huron Coastal Centre. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-microplastics-clean-up
The Trans Superior Yacht Race, created in 1969, is one of three races that draw in members of the sailing community from near and far to test their mettle on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Sault Ste. Marie Evening News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-superior-race
In Ohio, work is nearing completion on the Upland Sims Park Extension Project, which would add 5.33 acres of serene natural greenspace to Euclid’s growing waterfront along Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250730-euclid-park
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/07/all-water-is-local/
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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By Lester Graham, Michigan Public
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal 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.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/07/environmental-groups-use-anniversary-of-kalamazoo-river-oil-spill-to-warn-about-enbridge-line-5/
Environmental groups gathered over the weekend to mark the 15th anniversary of an oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Attendees warned that the 15-year-old oil spill foreshadows what could happen if an oil pipeline that runs through the Great Lakes is not shut down. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-historic-oil-spill
In Ohio, Toledo’s newly expanded maritime museum includes a fully accessible historic pilothouse and an experience that humanizes the legacy of the inland seas. The 5,000 square foot space surprises, challenges, and reimagines maritime storytelling. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-maritime-museum-expansion
A dashboard created by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy keeps track of which beaches contain unsafe bacteria levels for swimming. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-beach-closures
Ohio lawmakers are trying to reel in a catch by making walleye the official state fish with a bipartisan bill. If passed it would make Ohio the second Great Lakes state to give the species that title. Read the full story by the Ohio Capital Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-ohio-walleye
A professor of geology and team of researchers at Hope College are studying the source of high levels of nitrates in well water at Oval Beach along the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. The research team has been working in the area for over a decade. Read the full story by the Michigan Public.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-michigan-dunes
A new documentary examines the impact of invasive mussels on the Great Lakes. The film is scheduled to be released in 2026 on PBS in the U.S. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-great-lakes-documentary
At an event on Friday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and Great Lakes advocates and researchers cautioned against funding cuts to a critical research institute, warning that the loss of staff and funding could have dire consequences for keeping the Great Lakes clean and healthy. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-funding-advocating
Michigan officials recently reported six new detections of a toxic chemical spread through Ann Arbor but have not yet concluded whether the detections mean the chemical plume is still moving. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-chemical-plume
Seiches can happen in any of the Great Lakes, but they’re much more dramatic in Lake Erie because of its unique shape and shallow depth. Read the full story by WTVG – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-erie-seiches
Total cargo shipped on the St. Lawrence Seaway is up 496,000 tonnes of goods in June mostly due to increases in the transportation of grain and dry bulk goods. Read the full story by The Sault Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250728-seaway-cargo
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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By Ruth Abramovitz, Interlochen Public Radio
Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.
This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio.
In February 1998, Congress passed what should have been an uncontroversial bill.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/07/points-north-a-good-not-great-lake/
Michigan state officials on July 24 said an invasive crayfish species that has been found in several Michigan counties was discovered in a rearing pond at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery. Read the full story by the Lansing State Journal
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250725-invasive-crayfish
A group of long-distance swimmers will begin a journey this weekend to complete the voyage the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald started 50 years ago. They will swim more than 400 miles from where the ship sank in Lake Superior to Detroit, Michigan. Read the full story by MPR News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250725-swimming-journey
Port Huron officials requested $6.5 million from a Michigan House subcommittee to restore the city’s Black River Canal which has been closed since 2014. Officials argue reopening this vital waterway would help revive waterfront tourism and better protect boaters during emergency situations. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250725-canal-repair
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy have investigated reports of high and discolored water on Lake Angeline, located south of Ishpeming in Marquette County. Read the full story by the Marquette Mining Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250725-discolored-water
A bill with bipartisan support instructing the U.S. Coast Guard to develop a plan for the design and building of a new Great Lakes icebreaker was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives this month. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250725-icebreaker-bill
