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HOT TOPIC!!! Socio-Economic Assessment of Muskegon Lake Habitat Restoration, 2019
Pollution from historical and contemporary sources impair the health of the industrial Midwest’s inland lakes and rivers. The Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) currently lists 27 water bodies in the Great Lakes as “Areas of Concern” (AOCs). These are defined under the US-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement as “geographic areas designated by the Parties where significant impairment of beneficial uses has occurred as a result of human activities at the local level” (US EPA, 2013).
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Habitat Restoration on Muskegon River at Veterans Memorial Park
The restoration project will continue this year, despite record high water levels throughout the Great Lakes Region.
Read more about the project here:
The Muskegon Lake Watershed Partnership needs you!
Please check out our Muskegon Lake Action Plan and the implementation
frameworks for three of its chapters:
The MLWP invites your involvement in the long-term restoration and protection of the
Muskegon Lake ecosystem.
Please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you are interested in partnering on a project!
Witness an environmental emergency?
If reporting an environmental emergency, spill or release involving water, groundwater, wetlands, oil, land or air, please contact the PEAS Hotline immediately (24/7):
State of Michigan EGLE Pollution Emergency Alerting System (PEAS) Hotline: 800-292-4706
Many incidents also warrant reporting to the federal National Response Center which serves the U.S. EPA and the U. S. Coast Guard:
Federal NRC hotline: 800-424-8802