Tag: Lake Michigan
‘The sand had moved on’: Sleeping Bear Dunes platform removed
A wooden platform at the Lake Michigan Overlook was part of stop #9 on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive stood for decades. Winter weather finally eroded the sand beneath it.
Sleeping Bear’s famous Lake Michigan Overlook platform has been removed due to erosion
A large wooden platform deck at stop #9 on Sleeping Bear Dune’s Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive fell victim to erosion over the winter and had to be removed for safety […]
Lake County opens new Lake Michigan-based water system; ‘They’re going to have some really clean, amazing water’
The opening of the Lake County Pekara Water System in Illinois will provide thousands of residents that formerly relied on wells with Lake Michigan water. Read the full story by […]
Despite U.S. research resistance, Great Lakes aims to be Silicon Valley for water
Water-based economic researchers in the Great Lakes region are seeing U.S. government resistance to funding world-changing hub for water technology.
Here comes the region’s first next-generation nuclear reactor
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The first small modular nuclear reactor in the Great Lakes region just got the green light to start construction — in Ontario.