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Growing Pains: Big crowds on a little island can bring out the darker side of Great Lakes tourism
-Small Great Lakes islands struggle to strike a balance between the need for tourism with how overwhelming the number of incoming tourists can be each summer.
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New Standards on Lead and Copper: EGLE educates public on lead regulations while water suppliers fight new rule
-Improving drinking water quality was one of the campaign pledges Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made during her successful campaign in 2018.
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Billions Invested in Clean Water: Port Milwaukee implements a range of methods to great success
-The Lynyrd Skymmr is a 50-foot-long river skimmer that cruises Port Milwaukee‘s waterways several times a week to collect floating debris — dead fish, plastic bottles, branches and other refuse.
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IJNR Snapshots: Septic systems pose an environmental and economic dilemma for rural residents
-With the need for a new sewer system to protect the lake and the expense of such a system, some Tippecanoe Lake residents are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Restoring Howards Bay: Legacy lead and other contaminants are targets of dredging and capping.
-Where Wisconsin and Minnesota share a Lake Superior harbor, a $13.8 million clean-up project at this Area of Concern will launch in 2020, removing lead and other contaminants, some a century old, that persist in the waterway.
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Sandusky Bay Initiative: Ohio DNR plans massive multi-project initiative to transform the bay’s waters
-The Sandusky Bay Initiative involves projects aimed at restoring wetlands and aquatic ecosystems, reducing wave action and improving water clarity.
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Milwaukee sewage exec has an “audacious” goal to protect Lake Michigan
-Milwaukee’s Kevin Shafer has an ambitious goal for the agency charged with keeping sewage out of Lake Michigan. He wants zero sewage overflows to the lake by 2035, a goal that has national colleagues and a Milwaukee environmental group questioning if he understands the inevitability of overflows.
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Muskegon: Former industrial waterfront makes room for cruise ships and passengers
-“The majority of the people coming on these cruise ships are coming from the coastal region, so they’re coming out from the western states, they’re coming out from California and the northwest, they’re coming from all up and down the eastern shoreline”
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Detroit Port Seeks Partners and Funding
-Aimed at drawing in more investment and federal grant money for infrastructure and expansion, the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority is launching its “Port Forward” initiative.
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Making Waves at the Ballot Box
-Residents of Toledo will have the Lake Erie Bill of Rights on their ballots in a special election on Feb. 26.
