Annual Reports of the Great Lakes Regional Water Use Database
The Annual Reports of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Regional Water Use Database are published annually, and available via this link to the Great Lakes Regional Water Use website.
Category: Water Infrastructure
Approaches for Improving Great Lakes Water Infrastructure: A Blueprint
This blueprint shares Priority Areas to advance water infrastructure improvements in the Great Lakes basin.
Best Practices for Integrated Water Infrastructure Asset Management (IWAM): Project Archive
Archived project materials
Invasive Species and the Chicago Area Waterway System
Archived project materials
Best Practices for Integrated Water Asset Management in the Great Lakes Basin: IWAM Phase I Summary Report
This report summarized information gleaned from the Integrated Water Asset Management (IWAM) webinar series and focus groups regarding key barriers and recommended best practices for catalyzing IWAM.
Water Infrastructure Priorities for the Great Lakes Region
In March 2017, the Great Lakes Commission eleased a set of comprehensive recommendations for investing in water infrastructure across the Great Lakes region.
Greater Lakes: Reconnecting the Great Lakes Water Cycle: Project Archive
Archived project materials
Cumulative Impact Assessment of Withdrawals, Consumptive Uses and Diversions
The Cumulative Impact Assessment of Withdrawals, Consumptive Uses and Diversions is used for a review of decision making standards and their application, and for other purposes.
Great Lakes Energy Water Nexus Initiative
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Toward a Water Resources Management Decision Support System for the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River Basin
This report presents the research, findings and recommendations resulting from the project, Toward a Water Resources Management Decision Support System for the Great Lakes (WRMDSS), supported by the Great Lakes Protection Fund and authored by the Great Lakes Commission and its collaborators.
Project Proposal: Climate Fluctuations and the Great Lakes Basin
Project Proposal submitted to the Office of Global Programs, NOAA: Climate Fluctuations and the Great Lakes Basin: Socio-economic Dimensions and Policy Implications.
Guidebook to Groundwater Resources Education Opportunities in the Great Lakes Region
This Great Lakes Commission guidebook identifies groundwater resource tools and information available to educators, public officials, agency representatives and communities in the Great Lakes region. Its basic premise is that comprehensive protection of groundwater resources, of critical importance to everyone in the Great Lakes region, depends on the initiative of local protection efforts and an educated citizenry.
Groundwater Education Strategy
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Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Commerce: Safety, Energy and Environmental Implications of Modal Shifts
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Guidebook to Drought Planning, Management and Water Level Changes in the Great Lakes
Prompted by the severity of the drought of the summer of 1988, the Great Lakes Commission recognized the need to strengthen the region’s ability to anticipate and respond to drought and its attendant impacts on Great Lakes water levels. At its November 1988 annual meeting, the GLC created the Task Force on Drought Management and Great Lakes Water Levels. This document is a product of that Task Force.
Great Lakes Shore Erosion and Flooding Assistance Programs
This 1987 report of the Great Lakes Commission’s Lake Levels, Flooding and Shoreline Erosion Task Force presents information on shore erosion and flooding assistance and protection programs in the eight Great Lakes states.
Survey and Preliminary Evaluation of the Existing Water Use Data Collection Systems in the Great Lakes
This survey and preliminary evaluation of the existing water use data collection systems in the Great Lakes region were intended to assist the work of the Water Resources Management Committee.