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Goderich Laketown Band ready for a summer of performances
Article content With the warming of the weather comes the warming up of the instruments of the Goderich Laketown Band, a community organization that has
Michigan dam removal could improve environment, recreation and storm protection | Great Lakes Echo
The most exciting part about removing a dam in a small Michigan city isn’t the demolition, but what comes after.
The Huron River Watershed Council recently estimated the 148-year-old dam In Ypsilanti could come down in 2025 or 2026.
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Old Lake Michigan shipwreck visible again after burial under sand | Great Lakes Echo
Look fast or you may miss an elusive 170-year-old sunken schooner off the coast of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin.
The mostly intact shipwreck, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in early April, isn’t always visible, even though it’s in very shallow waters, said Tamara Thomsen, a Wisconsin Historical Society maritime archaeologist.
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Need a summer read? Join this basin-wide book club | Great Lakes Echo
Readers across the Great Lakes states and Canada this year will participate in a basin-wide book club hosted by the Library of the Great Lakes.
From now until September 2025 participants will read Michigan author Sally Cole-Misch’s The Best Part of Us and Ontario author Joanne Robertson’s children’s book, The Water Walker.
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Londoner saluted among 25 outstanding women in science
Martha Dagnew, of Western University’s engineering department, is being saluted by consumer products giant 3M for her work to purify water.
Dams may slow harmful algal blooms in urban lakes, expert says | Great Lakes Echo
Like clockwork, Michigan’s Ford Lake and its downstream neighbor, Belleville Lake, turn bright green every summer due to harmful algal blooms.
The lakes, located near Ypsilanti in the southeast part of the state, have struggled for decades with phosphorus pollution that spurs algae growth.
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Nature has clues to solve environmental problems | Great Lakes Echo
Human engineering solves age-old problems each day.
But the natural environment has been engineering solutions to solve problems for thousands of years. People are catching on.
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Cuyahoga comeback: Remediation is working but it’s hard to measure | Great Lakes Echo
Fifty-five years after the Cuyahoga River last caught fire, its health continues to improve.
But determining what prevention and cleanup practices are most effective remains difficult.
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Mayor thrust into national spotlight amid Walkerton water crisis dies
David Thomson, who served as mayor during the deadly tainted water disaster in Walkerton in May 2000, died Feb. 18 at the age of 93 at Hanover & District Hospital. A tribute to Mr. Thomson, posted on Brockton’s municipal website, called him a “humble gentleman” who led with “care and compassion for the community.” David […]
‘Plasticky’: What’s behind odd taste, smell in some London-area tap water?
If you live between south London and Lake Erie, you might think something’s wrong with your drinking water.