It's High Tide on the Great Lakes

Get informed and get involved in efforts to restore and improve these international treasures. The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water and are vital for healthy families, healthy communities, and healthy fish and wildlife in Wisconsin.

Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Opportunities to Learn and Participate

The following opportunities -- to learn more about major Great Lakes initiatives and issues, and to participate in the decisionmaking -- are on tap for fall 2006.

Track Legislation

A special legislative committee [exit DNR] is working to ratify a water use agreement among Great Lakes governors.

Submit Comments

A 60-day public comment period opens on New Berlin's proposal to use more water from Lake Michigan to help provide safe drinking water for city residents. Read full News Release, from September 26, 2006.

Participate in a Forum

A public forum on the Sheboygan River cleanup [PDF 103KB] is set for October 12, 2006, at the Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan. The forum will focus on the cleanup work thus far to remove contaminated sediments from the riverbed, what needs to happen to sustain the clean-up down to the harbor, and visions for the future.

Attend a Conference

The 2006 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) will be held November 1-3, 2006, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The conference is open to the public.

Read a Testimony

DNR testimony to Congress [PDF] supporting a historic national plan to restore and protect the Great Lakes and more federal money to carry out the plan, developed through the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration.

Survey a Strategy

Wisconsin's Great Lakes strategy for carrying out the national plan within our borders and to better focus existing resources so the state can hit the ground running if federal money starts to flow.

Learn about Project Progress

The Fox River/Green Bay Cleanup Project is on schedule to complete another important milestone this year, removal of more than 170,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment from Little Lake Butte Des Mortes.