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Businesses along Lake Ontario hurt by flooding

By Veronica Volk | May 30, 2017

Flooding is consuming Lake Ontario beaches, and businesses are hurting for it.

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Model your watershed with free online app

By admin | May 22, 2017

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.

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VIDEO: Why does it take so long to reduce the level of Lake Ontario?

By Veronica Volk | May 12, 2017

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

By Ian Wendrow | May 11, 2017

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?

By Veronica Volk | May 11, 2017

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

By Jack Nissen | May 10, 2017

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

By Laina Stebbins | May 9, 2017

Aging dams in high-hazard locations have the potential to do great harm to the environment and to human life.

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Another clean-up for Mother Nature

By CurrentCast | May 8, 2017

Governments might be phasing out the use of microbeads, but nothing but time will remove the problem from the environment.

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Watershed politics unite clean water advocates

By Guest Columnist | May 5, 2017

A watershed is also a social structure that can fight EPA cuts and support better infrastructure, regulations

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Prevent stormwater pollution like a pro, easily

By CurrentCast | April 27, 2017

April showers bring… more opportunities for stormwater pollution.

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