Daniel Brown 06/16/2023 Policy Supreme Court Dismantles Core Wetland Protections in Clean Water Act

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has dismantled core land and waterway protections in the Clean Water Act by…

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…

Elizabeth Riggs 10/12/2017 Huron River Water Trail HRWC releases first-of-its kind study on river's economic impact

Read the newly released “Summary of The Economic Impact of the Huron River.” In 2016, HRWC commissioned a unique study…

Elizabeth Riggs 07/31/2017 Climate change On the chopping block: clean water

*** UPDATE: On August 16, 2017, the EPA and the Army extended the comment period by 30 days for the…

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…

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