Great Lakes News

<> Coalition to Testify at House Hearing on Great Lakes Efforts - Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition Policy Director Chad Lord will be testifying today before a U.S. House subcommittee responsible for funding environmental programs

<> Congress expands Great Lakes dredging; 16 projects planned in Michigan, Wisconsin - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District had planned nine dredging projects in Michigan and Wisconsin for 2014 worth $13.2 million. But Congress recently allocated an additional $17.8 million and the number hit 16. . .

<> Great Lakes BIOTIC Symposium - The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network is hosting the Great Lakes Briefs on Invasive Organisms Traded in Commerce (BIOTIC) Symposium in Milwaukee, WI on June 3-4. The project is being led by the Wisconsin and Minnesota Sea Grant Programs, and aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the organisms in trade invasion pathway. . .

<> Lakewood launches pilot sewer project in hopes of reducing expensive sewer upgrades - To help solve the problem of sanitary sewer overflows that pollute the Rocky River and Lake Erie,, Lakewood, Ohio, plans to dye-test and use video cameras on sewers leading from nearly 300 homes, many of which may have. . .