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State News
Gateway to the Great Lakes
Star Tribune (10/15)
Sault Ste. Marie holds the title of Michigan's oldest city, but its true claim to fame is an engineering marvel that connects Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes.
You haven't lived here until...you visited Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Detroit Free Press (8/28)
Last year, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which covers 448 square miles of Lake Huron off the northeast Lower Peninsula of Michigan,
attracted 60,000 visitors and this year, it expects to draw even more.
Monroe company to build wind turbines
The Toledo Blade (8/9)
The $25 million Ventower Industries LLC factory in Monroe, MI starts producing giant wind turbine towers Thursday, a watershed event for officials trying to rebuild the Great Lakes region’s distressed economy through green jobs.
EDITORIAL: Clean water critical to Michigan
The Detroit News (8/4)
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that could greatly limit the EPA's ability to continue to regulate programs which have, for nearly four decades, helped clean up our Great Lakes.
Ferry company navigates rough water
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (8/2)
Things have not gone as scheduled for the Lake Express this season. The car ferry resumes service Wednesday, after more than a week out of commission, and it plans to continue its round trips across Lake Michigan through the fall.
Take me to the rivers
City Pulse (7/27)
Two Michigan State University journalism graduates are turning their love for the outdoors into a newsworthy, informative past time devoted to Michigan’s rivers and streams.
State Beach Resources
Macomb County Beach Closing Data
The Macomb County Health Department
This site provides beach testing results for the past three years. Click on the appropriate link to see beach-specific results.
Michigan Beach Closings: Sources & Solutions
Alliance for the Great Lakes
When beaches close it is usually because of the risk to human health from viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and other microbes that enter Lake Michigan from many different sources.
Michigan Beach Monitoring and Closure/Advisory Practices
Natural Resources Defense Council
Michigan beach maps and information on beach monitoring and closings.
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
This site contains information about Michigan public beaches and recreational-use waterways. Here you will find information about beach closings, monitoring efforts and E. coli test results.
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality – Online Beach Monitoring System
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
To search for a beach or other location, enter any part of the beach name or waterbody name into the search box on the top of this page and click "GO".
Orchard Beach State Park
RING! Online
Situated on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, the park has 176 campsites, swimming beach and trails.
State Beaches
Great Lakes Information Network
Last updated: July 12, 2006
Maintained by: Christine Manninen, manninen@glc.org
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