Today, the Marblehead Lighthouse, the oldest continuously operating lighthouse in the Great Lakes located along the south shore of Lake Erie, is as much tourist attraction as navigational aid, due to GPS and other on-shore landmarks. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
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This is part one in a two-part series looking at the cost of water in Ontario. Find the Great Lakes News Collaborative’s series on cost of water in Michigan here.
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Since 2020 when Democrats swept into power by winning the presidency and taking control of both chambers of Congress, Great Lakes programs have had a tailwind of funding support from Washington.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided a $1 billion windfall for the region to accelerate clean up of the multiple toxic sites known as Areas of Concern that remain from the peak industrial period in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
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Bayfield County to map artesian wells following proposal to bottle and sell water there
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Old Business: EPA broadly designates legacy toxic sediment sites for funding priority
The seemingly endless process of crafting, negotiating and passing the infrastructure legislation is over.
The bill topped out at a trillion dollars, and $1 billion of that funding is coming to the Great Lakes region for continued restoration of the lakes. That’s in addition to the ongoing federal funding of over $300 million annually the lakes have received since 2010.