Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
Democratic U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on Thursday pushed to renew and expand the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding they contend is needed to keep Michigan’s waterways clean and vibrant for the public. Watch the full story by The Detroit...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
The blue-green mass that has been floating on Lake Michigan near St. Joseph this week – suspected of possibly being harmful algae – wasn’t all it was quacked up to be. Investigators believe that it is actually non-toxic duckweed, and not an algae bloom that can...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
The International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board announced this week it’s reducing outflows. This means it’ll be letting less water from Lake Ontario through the Moses-Saunders Power Dam into the upper St. Lawrence River. Read and listen to the full story by...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
A public tour this Saturday, August 24th at the Black River sturgeon hatchery near Onaway in northern lower Michigan gives Michiganders a special look at this important hatchery. The tours, hosted by the DNR, Michigan State University, Tower-Kleber Limited...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
The city’s wastewater treatment plant needs millions of dollars in upgrades, but neither the conditions there nor employee error was the cause of a 2-million gallon sewage spill this week, Flint’s Department of Public Works director says. A partial report filed by the...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
To satisfy the growing paddlesports community, Cleveland Metroparks are working with cities across Cuyahoga County’s waterfront to create an official Lake Erie Water Trail, with a map, signage and marked access points. Read the full story by the Cleveland Plain...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
As many as 77 Huletts once dotted ports around the Great Lakes. The huge machines, patented in 1898 by Conneaut, Ohio native George Hulett, vastly sped up the unloading of iron ore and other bulk materials from cargo ships but were rendered obsolete starting in the...
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says it has found zebra mussels in McCarron Lake in Ramsey County. Read the full story by Huron Daily Tribune.
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
Michigan state agency personnel have identified a former manufacturing site along the Kalamazoo River as a source of PFAS contamination, and early tests show the groundwater in the area flows toward the river. Read the full story by MLive.
Aug 23, 2019 | Daily News
The near record high water shrinking Lake Michigan beaches is also uncovering a king’s ransom of Petoskey stones. The only place in the world to find Petoskey stones is along the Lake Michigan shoreline of the state’s northwest Lower Peninsula. Read the full story by...
