Paul Steen 07/23/2024 Local Government Hamburg Township Protects Waterways with Fertilizer Ordinance This past fall, Hamburg Township made a powerful decision to help the Huron River, streams, creeks, lakes, and wetlands by… Read More »
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… Read More »
Andrea Paine 03/15/2023 News to Us News to Us Our March News to Us showcases important new research on environmental issues across Michigan. Read below for recent articles spotlighting… Read More »
Ric Lawson 07/09/2022 Monitoring Twenty Years of Volunteer Water Sampling Chemistry and Flow program grows and changes HRWC’s Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program (“Chem and Flow”), formerly the Water Quality… Read More »
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,… Read More »
Andrea Paine 08/13/2020 News to Us News to Us This month’s News to Us covers wins for Michigan drinking water, national public lands, and flood mitigation but also some… Read More »
Andrea Paine 12/20/2019 News to Us News to Us The past month delivered some wins for the Huron and water throughout the state, including a court ruling limiting Nestle’s… 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 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 »
Kris Olsson 08/11/2014 Middle Huron Toxic Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Last week, nearly 500,000 people lost access to clean water for drinking and bathing due to a toxic algae bloom that… Read More »