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A Wisconsin state law forbids lead pipe replacement when a private water utility is involved. Superior Water, Light & Power – the only private water utility statewide – and local officials are pushing to change the law in order to accelerate lead pipe replacement. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.
An oil spill from a service line adjacent to the marine dock in Sarnia, Ontario, was reported Thursday evening in the St. Clair River. The spill was cleaned up by around 11:15 p.m. Read the full story by Sarnia News Today.
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has proposed a new project to mitigate the immediate risks of erosion along the Line 5 oil pipeline, a move that comes amid fraught conflict between the Band and the Canadian oil giant Enbridge. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has launched an environmental review of the potential impacts of repowering the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in west Michigan’s Covert Township. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Dredging operations are underway in Michigan’s Manistee Harbor to improve ship navigation through the channel. Read the full story by Ludington Daily News.
The historic 1,000-pound anchor from the Oak Leaf, a schooner-turned-barge that sank in Wisconsin’s Sturgeon Bay in 1928, was recently moved to Bullhead Point, a small spit of land jutting into the Sturgeon Bay channel which is now on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historical and Archaeological District. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
As of Wednesday, eight Michigan beaches were closed due to high Escherichia coli, or E. coli, levels in the water within Arenac, Bay, Macomb, Oakland, Lenawee, and Allegan counties. Beach closure information is updated regularly on BeachGuard, a site run by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
The crowd that gathered at the recent Huron Multicultural Festival in Goderich had the opportunity to see Nyai Rondha, a performing group comprising 15 dancers of Indonesian heritage. Read More
The recent 55th anniversary of the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire serves as a reminder to Northeast Ohio residents of the benefits from decades of work cleaning up industrial contamination in the river. But Northeast Ohio officials and Cuyahoga River advocates see stormwater runoff as a new threat and worry it’s on the rise. Read the full story by WKSU – Kent, OH.
Starting in 2022, Viking Cruises gave its two expedition ships, Octantis and sister ship Polaris, a summer job: plying the Great Lakes from April through September. Since then, the popularity of cruising the Great Lakes has only increased. Read the full story by The Globe and Mail.
Thirteen labs make up the University of Windsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER). Headquartered at the shores of the Detroit River, GLIER researchers specialize in the complex problems facing the Great Lakes and the watersheds that feed into them. Read the full story by The Globe and Mail.
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