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Today more than 100 Great Lakes advocates will be taking part in the 2020 Great Lakes Day and Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast in Washington D.C. to discuss efforts being made at the federal level to keep the Great Lakes healthy. Read the full story by Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

Today more than 100 Great Lakes advocates will be taking part in the 2020 Great Lakes Day and Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast in Washington D.C. to discuss efforts being made at the federal level to keep the Great Lakes healthy. Read the full story by Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

Today more than 100 Great Lakes advocates will be taking part in the 2020 Great Lakes Day and Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast in Washington D.C. to discuss efforts being made at the federal level to keep the Great Lakes healthy. Read the full story by Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

Today more than 100 Great Lakes advocates will be taking part in the 2020 Great Lakes Day and Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast in Washington D.C. to discuss efforts being made at the federal level to keep the Great Lakes healthy. Read the full story by Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

Muskegon County commissioners have tentatively agreed to move forward with plans to purchase and create a public park on the former Nugent Sand mine property in Norton Shores, Michigan, that recently was appraised at nearly $15 million. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

The Rome Fish Hatchery stocks brown trout and brook trout for many lakes and streams in upstate New York. The hatchery gets its water supply from Delta Lake, which is contaminated with invasive zebra mussels. Read the full story by WKTV – Utica, NY. View the full article

The New York Department of Environment Conservation has announced the adoption of several fishing regulation amendments for anglers fishing Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and their tributaries. Read the full story by NewYorkUpState.com View the full article

Three Upstate New York congressmen unveiled a bill today that would open the door for states, cities, towns, and homeowners to sue the International Joint Commission over Lake Ontario flooding. Read the full story by The Post-Standard. View the full article

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will host a public meeting today to discuss where dredge sediment material from the Howard’s Bay Remediation Project will be placed. Read the full story by Superior Telegram. View the full article

The city of Flint is owed more than $4.8 million for pipeline work done last year but it hasn’t turned in the paperwork to get it. The money, paid to contractors for replacing pipelines, is reimbursable by the state. Officials say Flint hasn’t submitted the proper paperwork to Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy to receive the funds. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others analyzed groundwater data collected by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 2000 to 2018. They found radium levels were trending upward in wells drawing from a regional aquifer underlying the southern two-thirds of the state. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. View the full article

This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will remove the ice boom from the outlet of Lake Erie, where it protects the Niagara River from ice jams all winter. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer. View the full article

This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will remove the ice boom from the outlet of Lake Erie, where it protects the Niagara River from ice jams all winter. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer. View the full article

The unique natural limestone arch, which stands on Lake Huron’s shoreline 146 feet above the Great Lake, has been visited by millions of people since humans first came to Michigan’s Mackinac Island. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

A full-service marina designed specifically for transient boaters will be opening in the spring of 2021 on Chicago’s Navy Pier. Read the full story by Marina Dock Age. View the full article

About 200 people attended a meeting Friday afternoon in the mid-Michigan city of Caseville to learn more about what can be done about the high water levels on the Lake Huron shoreline. The meeting featured several agency speakers addressing the issue of high levels along the lake. Read the full story by Huron Daily Times. View the full article

The date was March 2, 1947, when the Erie Dispatch Newspaper featured the drawing and visions of Wilber Henry Adams, a designer with a view of the possible future of Presque Isle State Park in Erie, PA. Read the full story by Erie News-Times. View the full article

After past attempts to reduce funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Trump administration’s new budget plan funds the program at current levels while making drastic cuts to other core clean water programs. Read the full story by The News-Herald. View the full article

The Ohio Lake Erie Commission is rolling out its updated domestic action plan for 2020. The comprehensive and adaptive strategy, aimed at combating harmful algal blooms, has been in the works for years as part of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed by the United States and Canada in 2012. Read the full story by Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

In 2019, $1.6 million went unused in the Great Lakes Water Authority’s Water Residential Assistance Program, and so the water authority will use the leftover money to help Detroit and Flint, Michigan, with conservation and water bill payment. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Saginaw, MI. View the full article

The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission is urging Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb to declare an emergency for erosion damage along Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline, thus making the shoreline area eligible for federal disaster aid. Read the full story by the Chicago Post-Tribune. View the full article

Stormwater picks up road salt, dirt, oil, grease, and trash as it moves across hard surfaces like streets, sidewalks, and driveways before it ultimately enters our rivers and lakes, hurting the environmental and economic health of our communities. Read the full story by The Alpena News. View the full article

Environmental groups in Illinois and Indiana have filed a federal complaint in hopes of forcing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to complete a review that could designate lake sturgeon as a federally endangered species. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

Instead of a winter wonderland, residents living along the shore of Lake Erie in New York woke up this weekend to a winter nightmare when they found their homes completely encased in thick ice. Read the full story by CNN. View the full article

Four Michigan middle school students have spent the past several months sampling, measuring, investigating and experimenting with solutions to the problem of microplastics in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by C&G News. View the full article