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A coalition of groups is developing an engineering project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam to block invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

A project in Illinois to keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan is based on a barrier in Ohio that keeps more grass carp from reaching Lake Erie.

LANSING — A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative and expensive engineering project at the 96-year-old Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River south of Chicago

LANSING — A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative and expensive engineering project at the 96-year-old Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des P

INVASIVE CARP: A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative engineering project south of Chicago to block invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan. The $1.146 billion project, paid for …

The project is meant to help prevent catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes fishery.

Bridge Michigan reporter Kelly House moderated a Zoom discussion with three experts about efforts to fight Asian carp and other invasives.

Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much of the nutrient phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lakes central basin each year from rivers and their tributaries. Excessive phosphorus, largely from agricultural sources, contributes to the annual summer cyanobacteria bloom that plagues Lake Eries western basin and the central basins annual "dead zone," an oxygen-starved region that blankets several thousand sq...

Map of Great Lakes Areas of Concern: Image: Adapted from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Editor’s note: This is the final part of a 5-part series by Kalah Harris, Audrey Porter, Yue Jiang and Claire Moore that focuses on trans-border U.S. and Canadian environmental research projects. By Audrey Porter During 35 years of restoration in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern, there has been gradual progress and a hopeful future ahead, according to a new study. Development of a remedial action pl...