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DEQ to hold public meeting in Emmet County on critical dunes
Staff WriterThe Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public informational meeting Thursday, Feb. 14, to address the changes in Emmet County, after it repealed its critical dunes ordinance last month. Both the Emmet County Planning Commission...Tags: Michigan Legislature
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Skokie Playfield and other Winnetka projects address drainage problems
Terry Schwartz recently stared out of his office window at the Skokie Playfield, its mud surface covered with ice and snow, and remembered the summer flood of 2011. "I was sitting on an island," said Schwartz, executive director of the Winnetka Park...
Tags: Floods, Local Government
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DNR to reduce stocking of Chinook salmon
CHARLEVOIX — Over the course of the year, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has decided to reduce Chinook salmon stocking in Lake Michigan by 66.9 percent. Until now, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana state agencies stocked 3.3...
Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Aquaculture
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Woman, 72, identified after being pulled from Lake Michigan
A 72-year-old woman who was pulled from Lake Michigan in the Rogers Park neighborhood this morning has been identified. A person who lives near the Pratt Boulevard Park called 911 about 11:20 a.m. when they saw the body. The police Marine Unit then went...
Tags: Rogers Park
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Ash-dumping Lake Michigan ferry may stay afloat
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Lake Michigan ferry that travels between Wisconsin and Michigan would be allowed to stay afloat even though it dumps 500 tons of coal ash into the lake each season, under a special provision added to a bill pending in Congress....
Tags: Coal, Tom Barrett, Bill Huizenga, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Elk Lake lake trout an old population, researcher hopes
ELK LAKE — The research into a lake trout population living in Elk Lake started with a hunch. In 2008, the Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station was doing a survey on Elk Lake, and the researchers ran into some lake trout that just looked...
Tags: Central Michigan University, Lakes and Ponds, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Fishing, Aquaculture
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Lawmaker wants review of Lake Michigan outflows
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A member of Congress from Michigan called for a federal review Thursday of water releases from Lake Michigan through an outlet at Chicago, a century-old practice that she said should end as Great Lakes levels approach...
Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Engineering, U.S. Army, U.S. Supreme Court, Science and Technology
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Temperatures Top 70 In West Michigan
FOX 17 MeteorologistIt isn't rare, but it is a bit unusual to hit 70 degrees in the month of November. A strong push of warm air from the south across West Michigan on Sunday sent many thermometers skyrocketing to 70 or better. The record for Grand Rapids on November 11...Tags: Weather, Weather Reports
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Winds, Rain Hit West Michigan
FOX 17 Chief MeteorologistThe remnants from what was once Hurricane Sandy, coupled with a strong high pressure system to the west, produced high winds and some rain across most of West Michigan on Tuesday, October 29, 2012. Peak Wind Gusts The highest wind gusts in the area were...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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