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Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax

By Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner

A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is deeply flawed and the standards should be stricter.

Dave Belluck, who worked as a toxicologist for multiple states and the federal government, says that “the science is the science” and regulating agencies, including the U.S.

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When the Heat Is On, Water Can Still Be Off in Great Lakes Cities

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

When an early summer heat wave enveloped the Great Lakes region last month, Cleveland officials stepped in to offer relief.

They reminded residents of the availability of splash pads for outdoor water recreation. And they extended hours at air-conditioned recreation centers designated as public places to cool off.

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What the overturning Chevron deference means for the Great Lakes

The United States Supreme Court recently overturned a 40-year-old precedent that could have major implications for the Great Lakes. In deciding two cases this term related to herring fishing and regulatory fees — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce — the nation’s highest court overturned its 1984 holding also known as the “Chevron precedent” or “Chevron deference.” In Chevron v.

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Authorities have detected an oil spill in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal’s east end, less than two weeks after an oil spill in the same area. The root cause of the oil spill near Pointe-aux-Trembles on July 25 is unknown, but authorities say they found the pipe that led the contaminant to the river. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Funded through grants and the Ohio Department of Education, the University of Toledo (UT) is conducting a study that will collect air from Lake Erie, where it will then be transported back to UT for testing. The study focuses on how algal blooms affect humans by analyzing the effect of the toxins on human cells in a lab. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-habs-study

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A developer based in Holland, Michigan, attempting to build a marina and high-end housing at the Kalamazoo River mouth has sued the leader of the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance, a nonprofit organized in 2007 to oppose development at the river mouth. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-development-litigation

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Throughout the Michigan Brown Trout Festival, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service researchers were busy gathering vital data on the fish populations in Lake Huron. Festival participants helped with this research as some anglers offered their catches as samples. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-festival-research

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Two remote-controlled robotic devices are being deployed in Milwaukee to try and alleviate plastic pollution. The supermarket chain Meijer donated $250,000 to the Council of the Great Lakes Region Foundation for the technology, which was given to Milwaukee Riverkeeper. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-cleanup-robots

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The last wild clutch of Great Lakes piping plover eggs recently hatched, but the scientific details read more like a daytime soap opera script. It’s a tale of one female plover who bred this season with two males on two different Lake Michigan beaches – only the second time scientists documented that behavior. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-piping-plover-breeding

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The Lake Erie Waterkeepers will host various stakeholders and local press aboard a ferry boat on August 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Toledo Water Crisis. Other boaters are invited to join them while monitoring marine channel 68 as they lead a boat parade in a show of support for solving the HAB problem. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-water-crisis-anniversary

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More than a dozen Michigan beaches faced closures over the weekend due to increased bacteria levels. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality flagged the 14 Michigan beaches for increased bacteria levels, as of July 26. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-beach-closures

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With hundreds of shipwrecks sitting at the bottom of the Great Lakes, the state of Michigan works to prevent theft, damage and corrosion with legally protected locations known as underwater preserves which were established in 1980. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-underwater-preserves

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Escanaba, Michigan, the small Upper Peninsula town on the northern shoreline of Lake Michigan, is expecting dozens of visits from Victory Cruise Lines in 2025. Escanaba welcomed cruise ships for the first time in 2023 from American Queen Voyages, which was the successor of Victory Cruise Lines after the owner retired. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240729-cruise-destination

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Very moist air and clear skies allowed areas of dense fog to form overnight in parts of central and east central Wisconsin. The fog is patchy, so watch out for rapidly changing visibility if you are driving this morning. The fog should dissipate by 9am.

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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

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Ojibwemodaa! Let’s speak Ojibwe!

“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.

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The Apostle Islands could soon become Wisconsin’s first national park, thanks to an effort by several federal lawmakers. Becoming a national park would attract more people to the Apostle Islands, sharing the natural beauty of the islands and shores of Lake Superior. Read the full story the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240726-apostle-islands

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For nearly 40 years, the New York Department of Conservation considered the Lake Ontario shoreline from Webster to Parma, New York, to be an Area of Concern (AOC). After four decades of restoration work, regulators recommend removing the lakeshore from the AOC list. Read the full story by WHEC-TV – Rochester, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240726-aoc-delisting

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As weather patterns shift, blue-green algal blooms are appearing in areas where they wouldn’t commonly occur. Researchers from the Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research in Windsor, Ontario, are working to understand blooms in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the CBC.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240726-blue-green-algae

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Lake Erie will soon host a pioneering water treatment process, the first of its kind in the U.S., thanks to a partnership involving the Cleveland Water Alliance and a South Korean tech company. Avon Lake Regional Water in Ohio was selected as the testing site. Read the full story by The Morning Journal.

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Birds that grow up dining from Saginaw Bay, Michigan, and other polluted Great Lakes sites are far more likely to be infertile, lay eggs with embryos that don’t survive, or raise chicks that fail to develop, according to recent research. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240726-toxic-hot-spot

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Activists gathered to mark the anniversary of the 2010 oil spill near Marshall, Michigan, where a ruptured pipeline released about a million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River. Activists admonished the pipeline’s owner for its safety record and current plans for the Line 5 pipeline in northern Michigan. Read the full story by Michigan Public.

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Registration is now open for a relay swim event that will mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The 17-stage, 411-mile relay swim begins in Lake Superior, where the shipwreck lies, and ends in Detroit, the ship’s intended destination. Read the full story by MLive.

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As more green infrastructure projects are installed across the state of Michigan, more workers are needed to maintain them. Friends of the Rouge, a Detroit-area nonprofit that manages the River Rouge watershed, is offering a short course about maintaining green infrastructure like rain gardens. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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By Eric Freedman A Rochester, N.Y., man who deliberately abandoned and sunk his 25-foot Bayliner in Lake Ontario must pay $15,442 restitution to cover the cost of unnecessary search-and-rescue operations. Vyacheslav Migitskiy admitted lying to federal investigators about his ownership of the boat, according to court documents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Migitskiy “intentionally sunk […]

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By Elinor Epperson Gelman Sciences LLC manufactured medical filters for decades, but that’s not the public health issue the company is known for. Dioxane from Gelman’s Scio Township plant leaked into Ann Arbor’s groundwater, creating a plume of contamination more than 4 miles long. That contamination was discovered by a University of Michigan graduate student, […]

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PFAS Roundup: EPA adds 12 more versions of PFAS to freshwater fish monitoring while federal farm bills focus on “forever chemicals”

On Thursday, July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated recommendations under the Clean Water Act, adding twelve versions of PFAS to the contaminant list along with amphetamine, three cyanotoxins, a flame retardant, and lead. The EPA noted that these are all pollutants that states, territories, and Tribes are recommended to monitor in local freshwater fish.

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Making up for lost trees

The rain started more than an hour before we arrived at an acre of marginal farmland that’s wedged between a house on a nearby hill and Sharon Creek. A tributary of the Thames River, Sharon Creek is a waterway that wends 170 miles through southwestern Ontario before emptying into Lake.

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By Elinor Epperson As more green infrastructure projects are installed across the state, more workers are needed to maintain them. Friends of the Rouge, a Detroit-area nonprofit that manages the River Rouge watershed, is offering a short course about maintaining green infrastructure like rain gardens. The course is an opportunity for workers to expand their […]

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All are invited to attend the second in a series of three free events designed for birders of all skills and abilities. Join “Everyone Can Bird: Graduation to Migration,” 9:30 – 11:30 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 14, at the Millennium Trail off N. 28th Street and Wyoming Avenue, Superior, Wisconsin.

In August, baby birds begin to “graduate” into adulthood as they prepare for migration. Come join a celebration of this exciting adventure for the new adult birds.

Sea Grant’s Natalie Chin looks for birds on Barker’s Island in Superior during an accessible birding event in 2022. Image credit: Marie Zhuikov, Wisconsin Sea Grant

People of all ages and ability levels are welcome to attend this accessible birding event. Move along the paved Millennium Trail on a guided bird hike or explore bird activities at your own pace.

American Sign Language interpretation is provided. Fifteen pairs of binoculars are available for use, along with a spotting scope, a wheelchair mount for binoculars and portable seating. A track chair – an all-terrain, electric-powered chair that can be used on hiking trails – along with a scooter and walkers will also be available, courtesy of indiGO.

Come and stay for the whole time or meet with and leave the group when you need. Light refreshments will be available. There will also be a wheelchair accessible portable bathroom on-site for this event.

Registration is encouraged but not required. Free bus transportation is provided at 9:20 a.m. from the Superior Public Library (1530 Tower Avenue) to the Millenium Trail. Please register to reserve your spot on the bus. (https://bit.ly/3y6XX7t)

This event is designed with access in mind, but people needing additional accommodations should email Luciana.Ranelli@wisc.edu or call Luciana at (715) 399-4085 at least 10 days before the event.

The Friends of the Lake Superior Reserve, City of Superior, Embark Supported Employment, Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, indiGO, Lake Superior Reserve, Minnesota Land Trust and Wisconsin Sea Grant are hosting this event.

The final “Everyone Can Bird” outing will be held Oct. 12 at Hawk Ridge in Duluth.

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