Kelly McCabe 07/12/2024 Phosphorus Combating Harmful Algal Blooms Michigan is home to over 11,000 inland lakes, with 300 lakes, ponds, and impoundments (i.e., a waterbody created by a… Read More »
Ric Lawson 10/18/2018 Phosphorus Late Harmful Algae Blooms Hit Shed After nearly six years of relatively clear, algae-free waters, harmful algae blooms (HABs) were recently detected in Ford and Belleville… Read More »
Stevi Kosloskey 07/18/2017 Monitoring 2017 Water Quality Monitoring Season Marks Halfway Point In March, HRWC’s Water Quality Monitoring Program began the season with a volunteer orientation where we introduced what we do… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 03/31/2017 Education Trip Report: D.C. Fly In For Clean Water The Huron River Watershed Council joined a delegation of river protection leaders from around the country to Washington, D.C. last… Read More »
Ric Lawson 02/07/2017 Adopt-A-Stream 2016 Results Are In! (at least some of them) In January, HRWC staff and volunteers got together to celebrate another successful season of data collection. Call it a Water-Nerd-Fest,… Read More »
Stevi Kosloskey 11/17/2016 Lower Huron/Downriver Water Quality Monitoring Program Allows Active Involvement The 2016 Water Quality Monitoring Program season wrapped up at the end of September, and now I spend time compiling… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 11/15/2016 Dams News to Us HRWC’s commitment to compiling and sharing noteworthy water-related news continues. This month’s News to Us covers the recent listing of… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 07/31/2015 Animals News to Us Local osprey are being outfitted with tracking devices so you and researches can monitor their travels, a new online learning… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 07/03/2015 Climate change News to Us It has been a busy news month. Many exciting things happening at the global, national and state level that affects… Read More »
Ric Lawson 12/24/2014 Lower Huron/Downriver 2014 Leaves the Huron Nutrient Story Complicated An excessive amount of nutrients is the top water quality concern in the Huron River watershed and the Great Lakes… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 09/25/2014 Climate change Rainy and warm? The forecast for a toxic algal bloom. On August 2nd, Mayor of Toledo Michael Collins, issued a ban on drinking water. Microcystis, a bacteria*, reached toxic levels… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 09/16/2014 Climate change News to Us This edition of News to Us shares articles on rainfall — how to use rain gardens to manage it, how… Read More »