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A four-year study conducted by U.S. Geological Survey shows that three Michigan rivers are among the most polluted waterways that feed into the Great Lakes.
1 kwi 2022 · The report, The Clean Water Act at 50: Promises Half Kept at the Half Century Mark, found that 95% of rivers and streams and 43% of lakes and reservoirs are impaired for swimming and recreation in Michigan.
4 paź 2020 · About 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes each year, most of it in Lake Michigan, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology. Microplastics are found in drinking water drawn from the lakes, and even in beer.
18 lut 2022 · President Joe Biden announced on Thursday a one billion dollar investment in cleaning up some of the most polluted shoreline areas of the Great Lakes. "It's going to allow the most significant restoration in the Great Lakes in the history of the Great Lakes," he said at a press conference in Lorain, Ohio.
1 maj 2023 · After decades of wanton industrial pollution in the Great Lakes region’s working rivers, outrage over the Rouge River blaze (and other fires in the Ohio’s Cuyahoga River and New York’s Buffalo River) fueled an environmental movement that resulted in the nation’s foundational environmental laws.
Water Qualtiy and Pollution Control in Michigan – Integrated Report. This Integrated Report is available electronically on the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Water Resources Division, Web site at Michigan.gov/Water under Lakes & Streams, Surface Water, Assessment of Michigan Waters, Water Quality and ...
7 lip 2021 · River managers have a trigger point for opening the lock gates — reversing the river’s flow into Lake Michigan — in order to protect downtown Chicago from disaster.
