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Model your watershed with free online app
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Model My Watershed is an app being used by teachers, students, land use planners, conservationists and more to get a sense of how land use changes the health of specific watersheds.
Catch of the Day
VIDEO: Why does it take so long to reduce the level of Lake Ontario?
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The International Joint Commission is increasing outflows from a dam in hopes of lowering Lake Ontario water levels. How long will it take to make a difference?
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Two species – one to preserve, one to control – challenge removal of dam on Michigan’s Grand River
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The Sixth Street Dam in Grand Rapids used to be a valuable tool in log transportation, but its planned removal now poses an environmental risk by endangering snuffbox mussels and potentially allowing the invasive sea lamprey to spread.
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Lake Ontario, Montreal are flooded. Can this dam help?
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Property owners along Lake Ontario’s shores hope a dam can help curtail flooding.
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This dam removal tool moves data rather than cement
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Dam removal is on an upward trend. A new tool helps to figure out which should go first.
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Old dams threaten downstream life
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Aging dams in high-hazard locations have the potential to do great harm to the environment and to human life.
Water
Another clean-up for Mother Nature
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Governments might be phasing out the use of microbeads, but nothing but time will remove the problem from the environment.
Commentary
Watershed politics unite clean water advocates
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A watershed is also a social structure that can fight EPA cuts and support better infrastructure, regulations
Podcasts
Prevent stormwater pollution like a pro, easily
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April showers bring… more opportunities for stormwater pollution.
Algae
Stay away from decay: Algae contains harmful bacteria, study says
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Recent research says decaying algae can promote the growth of bacteria that makes people and animals sick.