Maaike Wielenga 09/25/2024 Water Quality Keeping pollution out of waterways, one lonely storm drain at a time

Storm drains are like a subway system for thousands of gallons of stormwater that run off our roofs, streets, parking…

Ric Lawson 09/06/2024 Water Quality What’s the Deal with Septic Systems?

Wastewater, or the used or flushed water from our homes, requires treatment to keep us safe from illness and disease…

Kelly McCabe 06/03/2024 Water Quality 2023 Huron River Monitoring Shows Trends in Phosphorus, Bacteria and Salt

The 2023 reports are in on Huron River chemistry and flow monitoring! HRWC volunteers, staff, and partners have worked hard…

Rebecca Esselman 04/16/2024 Water Quality Huron River Report Card

The grades are in. The Huron takes home a C+. Today the University of Maryland released a series of report…

Andrea Paine 10/20/2020 Monitoring Lights, Camera, Analyze!

HRWC pilots low-cost spectrophotometer to analyze water pollution Around this time of year, neon green algal blooms begin to form in Lake Erie, undermining recreation,…

Andrea Paine 11/04/2019 Water Quality Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Concludes 2019 Season

In late September, the Huron River Watershed Council’s Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program completed its 18th year collecting data on…

Sam Bower 08/05/2019 Water Quality Reflections from a Day in the Field

This summer, our intern Sam Bower worked on many projects both in the field and at his desk. An avid…

Daniel Brown 05/02/2019 PFAS PFAS Update: Accelerated Action and New Foam Advisory

The PFAS threat is continuing to evolve rapidly throughout Michigan and in the Huron River Watershed. We previously discussed the…

Daniel Brown 01/30/2019 PFAS Quacker Tracker 2018

In this post, we’ll provide a brief summary of the legislation we were most closely following during the 2018 lame…

Daniel Brown 12/10/2018 Water Quality Lame Duck Bill Would Limit Michigan’s Ability to Address PFAS Contamination

Update: 12/31/18: Governor Rick Snyder signed HB4205 into law. Update: 12/11/18: HB4205 (“No Stricter than Federal”) has been passed by…

Andrea Paine 10/22/2018 Monitoring What does it take to test the waters of the Huron River?

This past summer more than 75 volunteers collected almost 400 water samples from roughly 30 sites throughout the Huron River…

Stevi Kosloskey 10/26/2017 Animals HRWC gets help from the dogs!

Investigating Honey Creek HRWC, with funding from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, is working to identify and control or…

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