Melina Pakey-Rodriguez 09/30/2024 Monitoring The Great 2024 Mussel Hunt (Newsletter Version) In summer of 2024, HRWC staff, interns, and volunteers embarked on an intensive mussel survey in the Huron River, declared… Read More »
Andrea Paine 06/18/2024 News to Us News to Us Our June News to Us shares opportunities to improve and learn about water quality. Dive in for articles on new… Read More »
Daniel Brown 04/29/2024 Dams Ypsilanti’s Pen Dam Removal Update The effort to remove Ypsilanti’s Peninsular Paper Dam (Pen Dam) from the Huron River has made steady progress. The initial… Read More »
Daniel Brown 09/20/2023 Dams Milestone Reached in Removal of Pen Dam EGLE funding supports next phase for HRWC and Ypsilanti The City of Ypsilanti, with support from HRWC, received a $3.78… Read More »
Guest Blogger 04/15/2023 Dams How To Remove a Dam What nearby communities can expect when a dam comes out of a river Every dam removal is unique, but there… Read More »
Andrea Paine 12/19/2022 News to Us News to Us Our final News to Us of the year has no shortage of environmental and water issue headlines, including climate change,… Read More »
Guest Blogger 09/20/2022 Dams Removing Ypsilanti’s Peninsular Paper Dam Prepares for the Future By guest blogger Beth Gibbons The thing about once in a lifetime opportunities is that they only come along once…. Read More »
Andrea Paine 05/18/2022 News to Us News to Us With a wave of federal funding on the horizon, infrastructure is top of mind in our May News to Us…. Read More »
Guest Blogger 04/27/2022 Dams Birds and Dams -by Juliet Berger, Ornithologist, NAP Across Michigan and throughout the country, old, obsolete dams are being removed from rivers with… Read More »
Guest Blogger 03/16/2022 Restoration Removing Dams Helps Fish Many dams in the U.S. have been an important part of infrastructure, serving to help with flood control and water… Read More »
Guest Blogger 10/05/2021 Dams Hydroelectric Dams, Methane, and the Huron River Dams: Not as green as you might think! Preliminary results from a recent EMU study indicate that dams on the… Read More »