Published June 9, 2020
TROY — While the Southeast Oakland County Resource and Recovery Authority Drop Off Center at 995 Coolidge Highway in Troy remained closed at press time, all curbside recycling was on schedule.
Read MorePublished June 5, 2020
ST. CLAIR SHORES — A plan to allow for up to 17 million gallons of additional storage in the Chapaton Retention Basin is facing opposition from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
Read MorePublished June 4, 2020
MADISON HEIGHTS — Before COVID-19 took the world by storm, the city of Madison Heights was sorting another health concern — the contaminants leaking out of Electro-Plating Services.
Read MorePublished April 28, 2020
WARREN/STERLING HEIGHTS — Cromie Elementary School in the Warren Consolidated Schools district was named “Top Overall School” in the Macomb County Green Schools Program for 2019-20. The program is sponsored by the Macomb County Board of Commissioners and the Macomb Intermediate School District.
Read MorePublished March 25, 2020
LAKE ST. CLAIR/LANSING — Although the Macomb County Emergency Management town hall meetings on high water had to be canceled because of the restriction on meetings that include more than 50 people, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, or EGLE, still wants waterfront residents to be prepared for high water levels in 2020.
Read MorePublished March 18, 2020
LANSING — The state of Michigan is working with Japan in a joint effort to preserve and restore lake environments.
Read MorePublished March 13, 2020
HARPER WOODS — For the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, Harper Woods residents will once again be going out into the community to clean up their town.
Read MorePublished March 11, 2020
TROY — The Great Lakes that surround us comprise 84% to 87% of the United States’ fresh water.
Read MorePublished March 11, 2020
FARMINGTON HILLS — A desire to build upon the current volunteer team and an increasing interest from residents to learn about the natural world are what motivated the Heritage Park Nature Center to hold its inaugural free volunteer naturalist training 6-9 p.m. March 18.
Read MorePublished February 28, 2020
ST. CLAIR SHORES — Following a highly successful fall event, the Nautical Mile Merchants Association is inviting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers back to the city March 18 to give an update on the forecasted level of Lake St. Clair for 2020.
Read MorePublished February 28, 2020
ST. CLAIR SHORES — Four Lake Shore Public Schools students have spent the past several months sampling, measuring, investigating and experimenting with solutions to the problem of microplastics in the Great Lakes, including St. Clair Shores’ own watery neighbor, Lake St. Clair.
Read MorePublished February 14, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — A Jan. 28 Sterling Heights special strategic planning meeting created an environment to showcase ideas to make the city greener.
Read MorePublished February 14, 2020
WARREN — A yearlong cleanup effort launched after old diesel fuel was found to be leaking into the Bear Creek near a Warren gas station is wrapping up, according to the Macomb County Public Works Office.
Read MorePublished February 11, 2020
METRO DETROIT — Heavier amounts of rainfall in the past few years are making springs in southeast Michigan wetter and have become a rising problem for the region’s waterways and properties.
Read MorePublished February 7, 2020
ST. CLAIR SHORES — As St. Clair Shores has been prohibited from charging a stormwater utility fee through a class action lawsuit filed by resident Brad Patrick and the Kickham Hanley law firm, city officials are now working to determine how they can correctly pay for the stormwater system.
Read MorePublished February 5, 2020
METRO DETROIT — In an effort to continue its Green Journey initiative and bring others into the loop, the Detroit Zoological Society recently launched its third annual Green Prize.
Read MorePublished February 4, 2020
MACOMB COUNTY — Three recent state grants were awarded as part of ongoing efforts to combat invasive species.
Read MorePublished February 4, 2020
GROSSE POINTE FARMS — A study of the crumbling seawall that separates Lake St. Clair from Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Farms and Shores is moving forward.
Read MorePublished January 31, 2020
ST. CLAIR SHORES — In the gray doldrums of winter, only hearty fishermen are even thinking of venturing out onto Lake St. Clair, and the boats that sprinkle the lake through spring and summer are mostly hunkered down for a deep winter’s nap under a blanket of shrink-wrap.
Read MorePublished January 27, 2020
MACOMB COUNTY — Macomb County Health Department results released Jan. 23, based on laboratory and visual analysis, stated that an unknown substance washed ashore from Lake St. Clair was “decaying filamentous algae with E. coli counts that present no imminent public health hazard, and are not indicative of raw sewage.”
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