Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
Michigan regulators are ordering the owners of the Edenville dam in Midland to make critically needed repairs to the structure. The dam cracked on May 19, after days of heavy rain. Now four months later, there’s still a gaping hole in the dam. Read the full story by...
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
EPA inspectors in 2017 found contaminated water leaking out of a mining operation in northern Minnesota and started pursuing a federal enforcement action. That would likely have meant a multimillion-dollar fine for U.S. Steel Corp., which owns the giant Minntac iron...
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
International cargo volumes through the St. Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes have fallen 8.4% to about 19.3 million tons so far this year in a shipping season that’s been described as “pandemic-plagued.” Read the full story by the Northwest...
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
Commercial fishers in the Great Lakes have been left out of federal aid for fisheries nationwide, to the tune of $300 million. (The Great Lakes got zero.) A fettered market cost the regional fishery $50 million this spring, according to the Great Lakes Fishery...
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
A shoreline restoration project years in the making will soon come to fruition along Anchor Bay in Chesterfield Township, Michigan. When the project is finished, roughly 740 linear feet of failing steel seawall will be replaced with natural shoreline, along with 1.5...
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
It’s mid-September and the annual fall salmon spawning run is sputtering a little, continuing on as it does every fall — despite low water levels and warm temperatures on Lake Ontario tributaries along the lake’s southern shore. Read the full story by New York...
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
The Cleveland Water Alliance, a nonprofit advocate for Lake Erie, has received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration to test innovations in water technology. Read the full story by the Plain Dealer.
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
The 2020 walleye and yellow perch hatches in the western basin of Lake Erie this year are both above average, continuing an exceptional fishing era, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
Nova Chemicals, an Ontario based plastics manufacturer, is providing $200,000 to keep plastic out of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Sarnia This Week.
Sep 18, 2020 | Daily News
A Minnesota kayaker paddled 1,000 miles in each of the past five years. Among his treks was a solo kayak crossing of Lake Michigan this summer. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
