Flooding is impacting all of the Great Lakes and understandably dominating headlines and concerns of shoreline communities. At the IJC’s first public consultations of 2019 to consider progress to restore and protect the lakes, researchers and residents reaffirmed that water quality issues also…
Across the Great Lakes region, residents overwhelmingly value the lakes and everything they provide – recreationally, economically and aesthetically. In binational polls taken by an IJC board, in person, and in letters and emails, citizens have expressed a deep caring for and desire to protect the…
Shoreline communities throughout the Great Lakes basin face many of the same challenges related to water. But solutions vary when it comes those challenges, which include seasonal flooding, aging or inadequate infrastructure and beaches that are unsafe for families to enjoy.
The International Joint Commission (IJC) is looking beyond the borders of North America to find potential solutions to issues of excess nutrients in basins shared by Canada and the United States.
Andrea VanderWoude studies Great Lakes conditions from the window of a plane. A hyperspectral camera on the aircraft also comes in handy.
IJC review of nutrient loading and impacts in lakes Champlain and Memphremagog reaches half-way mark
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has submitted its interim report to the Governments of Canada and the United States in response to the October 2017 request regarding the persistent issues of nutrient loading and harmful algal blooms in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River…
(February 6, 2018 - March 7, 2018) The IJC invited public comment on two reports outline how watershed management plans should be used to manage nutrient pollution in Lake Erie, and provide recommendations for key success factors needed to achieve meaningful nutrient load reductions.