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Looks at Locks: During this National Engineers Week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District highlighted two Lake Superior projects – the New Lock for the Soo Locks and the EPA clean up at Howard’s Bay (read more in the next story). The office also released the summaries of the projects on Facebook.
Investing in Water: Pres. Joe Biden will make another visit to the Northland Wednesday with a planned stop in Superior to promote the infrastructure bill. The exact time of the visit has not yet been announced, but it is one of a number of stops the day after the State of the Union address, according to a story by WDIO-TV. The station also posted a file video of Joe’s visit in 2020 to Hermantown. Dr. Jill Biden is expected to accompany her husband on his tour next week. The bipartisan-passed infrastructure bill includes $1 billion to the EPA, which it plans to use “to clean up and restore severely degraded sites, known as ‘Areas of Concern’ or AOCs,” the EPA reported in a Feb. 17 press release. “The Great Lakes are a vital economic engine and an irreplaceable environmental wonder, supplying drinking water for more than 40 million people, supporting more than 1.3 million jobs, and sustaining life for thousands of species,” EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan is quoted in the release. “Through the investments from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we will make unprecedented progress in our efforts to restore and protect the waters and the communities of the Great Lakes basin. Building a better America means investing in our
natural resources and the communities they support.” Among those AOCs are two still listed on Lake Superior – the St. Louis River between Minnesota and Wisconsin (the focus of the president’s visit) and Torch Lake in Michigan. Deer Lake, once on the AOC list, has been delisted. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has a page dedicated to the St. Louis River.
Big Lake Makeover: The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar, coming to Duluth as its new homeport, perhaps in March, revealed its new logo on Thursday with this post: “Spar’s new logo for her new homeport! The crew of Spar worked hard to develop a new logo to reflect Spar’s history and new home in Duluth!
The bald eagle, drawn by EM2 Caleb Ernest, is a shared symbol of wildlife from Spar’s
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