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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to soon release its management plans to combat harmful algal blooms in 12 lakes. The Great Lakes Research Consortium is also commissioning five projects to address the outbreaks and other environmental issues. Read the full story by WBRO – Buffalo, NY. View the full article

In a decision that further erodes the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin regulators are supporting a Wisconsin city’s bid to draw an annual average of 7 million gallons a day of water from Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer. View the full article

Recharge your batteries at these best-kept beach secrets on Wisconsin’s Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. View the full article

The Great Lakes are not as large as the oceans, but they are large bodies of water and hazards like rip currents can make the lakes very dangerous, even deadly. Read the full story by WMUK – Kalamazoo, MI. View the full article

A new website has been launched to track progress toward reducing phosphorus in Lake Erie, a key step in reducing harmful algal blooms. The ErieStat website, at eriestat.org, is aimed at encouraging people to track progress toward the goal of reducing phosphorus in the lake by 40 percent. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register. View the full article

The group that forced the state of Ohio into acknowledging that western Lake Erie is an impaired body of water has filed a motion in federal court seeking what is widely considered as the most comprehensive — and potentially costly — cleanup strategy. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade. View the full article

Scientists from NOAA’s national headquarters spent the week in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, to gather invasive zebra and quagga mussels for research. Read the full story by WBKB-TV – Alpena, MI. View the full article

A new study on ballast water discharge has found Great Lakes ships are moving non-native species from the lower lakes to western Lake Superior. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

The EPA says the funding is part of a program that helps communities reuse vacant and abandoned properties by making them available for housing, recreation, open space, health facilities, social services and other opportunities. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service researchers will soon have an estimate of how many bloodsucking sea lamprey use the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Michigan as spawning grounds. Researchers also studied whether lamprey are able to get through the Sixth Street dam which acts an unintended natural barrier from them spawning further into Michigan’s largest watershed. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

The Post-Standard says the state recorded blooms last week in 19 bodies of water from central New York to Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island. That’s over double the number recorded around Memorial Day weekend. Read the full story by the Associated Press. View the full article

The Pearl Mist of Pearl Seas Cruises made its first stop of the season on Monday in Muskegon, Michigan. The ship is scheduled to moor in Muskegon nine more times during the 2018 season. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Ship lovers got a treat when three of the Great Lakes’ massive thousand-footers where gathered at the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

One-third of the metal seawall that stands between Lake Michigan and the homes along the Ogden Dunes shoreline in Indiana is now exposed due to erosion. Read the full story by NWI Times. View the full article

Dredging in the canal began this week as environmental regulators continued to study an off-site disposal option for contaminated sediments. Contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are expected to dredge about 120,000 cubic yards by the fall. Read the full story by NWI Times. View the full article

Recharge your batteries at these best-kept beach secrets on Wisconsin’s Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Journal Sentinel. View the full article

Sturgeon were here when the glaciers came and they were here when what would become Michigan was covered with warm shallow sea. They date back to 136 million years ago, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “at a time when dinosaurs were at the height of their development.” Read the full story by The Voice. View the full article

The elements that make the Great Lakes so different from their saltier ocean cousins can also make them dangerous, the National Weather Service warns. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Evanston’s popular municipal dog beach will not open this summer, and an alternative beach has not been identified, after winter storms and rising Lake Michigan levels left the beach submerged earlier this year. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

At the ninth annual State of Lake St. Clair address, Macomb County (MI) leaders ticked off accomplishments made in the continuing effort to improve water quality Wednesday while admitting there is still a long way to go. Read the full story by the Macomb Daily News. View the full article

The last obstacle for fast approval of Clean Lake 2020 appeared to be cleared away when the Ohio House finally picked a new speaker Wednesday, ending weeks of wrangling. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register. View the full article

Rescuing Lake Erie from toxic-algae-producing pollution is going to demand a lot of political willpower and no small amount of science. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

Permit and contracting issues are delaying dredging work planned for this spring and summer off Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that will help save Buffalo Reef from being covered by drifting stamp sands. Read the full story by WLUC-TV-Marquette, MI. View the full article

On a windy day that caused the waves on Lake Michigan at Indiana Dunes State Park to be even more unpredictable than usual, the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project director of education, told the group of lifeguards that stood before him that they are going to train until they get it right. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

Researchers at NOAA are investigating the effect invasive mussels have on summer algal blooms in Lake Erie. Read and view the full story by WTVG-TV-Toledo, OH. View the full article