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Ann Arbor is moving forward with designing a new UV disinfection system for its water treatment plant to remove a microscopic parasite from the city’s drinking water supply. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

A deepening low pressure system tracking across Ontario into Quebec today will pull a strong cold front through the Great Lakes tonight. The National Weather Service has announced a hazardous weather outlook for portions of Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake St Clair. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald. View the full article

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray got a firsthand look at the Ottawa River and western Lake Erie’s Maumee Bay during an hour-long boat tour Thursday in which he vowed to promote cleaner, healthier water policies if elected. Read the full story by The Blade. View the full article

Ocean-going cargo ships known as salties have hauled 25.7 million tons through the St. Lawrence Seaway to ports like the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor from March 29 through Sept. 30. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

The plan from Pioneer, Ohio Mayor Ed Kidston is to extract water from the Michindoh Aquifer that crosses the Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan state boundaries and then sell it to the city of Toledo. Read the full story by WIBC – Indianapolis, IN. View the full article

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) maintains weirs along several rivers that block the fish and allow for the collection of the fish’s eggs and sperm to help more spawn survive. Once the DNR’s egg take needs are met, the agency sells surplus salmon to the public. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. View the full article

In one of the more dramatic days in Harrisburg in recent memory, lawmakers closed up legislative shop for the year Wednesday voting down a bill seeking financial relief for local communities impacted by PFAS water contamination. Read the full story by The Intelligencer. View the full article

Nearly half of about 300 Michigan fire departments said they have reserves of firefighting foam that has the potential to contaminate groundwater. Read the full story by U.S. News & World Report. View the full article

An engineering firm is recommending the Park District of Highland Park replace an ice-ravaged breakwater at a cost estimated to exceed $1.3 million. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

The grant, awarded by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Office of the Great Lakes, will help the county update its master plan with new principles focused on coastal resiliency. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review. View the full article

Hamtramck officials issued an advisory to residents after a new round of tests revealed elevated lead levels in the drinking water. Read the full story by WDIV. View the full article

Ault Island resident Cliff Steinburg has been trying to make headway with the governing international board that manages the levels, the International Joint Commission, St. Lawrence River Board, for months and is finally starting to get somewhere. Read the full story by The Leader. View the full article

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur visited Ohio’s Stateler Family Farms, a member of the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network, which showcases practices that will reduce and prevent nutrient runoff and improve water quality. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

In Ohio, brewers at Maumee Bay Brewing Company have created a green, fizzy beer with a balance of matcha, kiwi, and non-toxic algae to increase awareness of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and encourage action. Read the full story by Gizmodo. View the full article

In Ohio, multiple waterspouts were reported Wednesday off Lake Erie. Waterspouts usually occur towards the end of summer when the Great Lakes are at their warmest water levels. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH. View the full article

The 26 land conservancies spread out in every region of Michigan protect natural land from development and give residents an escape into nature. Read the full story by Capital News Service. View the full article

The Aquarius Project, run by students in collaboration with professional researchers from Chicago’s Adler Planetarium with help from the nearby Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum, is attempting a first in U.S. history: the recovery of meteorite fragments, or space rocks, from the bottom of a Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Washington Post. View the full article

One week after Toledo, Ohio, declared western Lake Erie’s 2018 algae season over, the federal agency actually in charge of making that call for the region did the same. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade. View the full article

Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie wine region is located a two-hour drive north of Pittsburgh. The geography of the area creates ideal grape growing conditions, and Lake Erie provides the key. Read the full story by the Trib Live. View the full article

Stand-up paddling is hot in Cleveland, Ohio. While the sport has been popular with people 35 to 55 (about 60 percent women), now younger and older paddlers and gravitating to the activity. Read the full story by Cleveland.com. View the full article

The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation is helping remake waterfronts and improving recreational trail systems in two former Rust Belt cities in the Great Lakes region that meant so much to the late, former owner of pro football’s Buffalo Bills. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

After being absent for 15 years, the often-fatal largemouth bass virus is in a different body of water than where it previously was found, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Read the full story by the Times Herald. View the full article

Despite Michigan’s widely praised effort to find PFAS contamination, state leaders have moved slowly toward setting a drinking water standard to regulate these persistent, toxic and pervasive “forever chemicals.” Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

The National Park Service has released four wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Once there were 50 wolves on the island, but inbreeding, climate change and disease all but wiped them out in the past decade. Read the full story by The Conversation. View the full article

Single-use disposable plastic straws might not seem like they have a huge negative impact on the environment, but they add up to create a problem. Roughly 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes ecosystem each year. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. View the full article