Environmental, business, and civic leaders urged Congress on Monday to solve what they’ve termed the “sewage crisis” in the Great Lakes. From January 2009 through January 2010, five U.S. cities[…]
A dam removal project on the Boardman River, a tributary of Lake Michigan that flows into West Grand Traverse Bay, will re-connect more than 3.4 miles of stream to the[…]
Heavy rain this summer has caused unusually high numbers of combined sewer overflows, or CSOs, across Great Lakes states, impairing water quality and worsening the risk to area beachgoers. Just[…]
This summer’s high temperatures, along with increased phosphorus loading, sewage discharges, and rainfall, have created something of a perfect storm for blue-green algae growth in Lake Erie. The lake’s western[…]
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