Local Investment in Great Lakes Protection and Restoration

Issue Briefs

• Making Every Drop Count: Conserving Water in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region


• Local Investment in Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River: United States and Canada Synopsis


• Healthy Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Beaches: A National Priority


• Federal Support is Needed to Address the Wastewater Infrastructure Deficit in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region


• Watershed and Greenspace Protection in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region

Local Investment in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence (Full Report)

Four page synopsis (English)
Four page synopsis (French)

February 27, 2008 Press Release:
Federal funding for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence restoration lags far behind local investment, new report finds

February 27, 2008 Media Event

• Great Lakes, a National Resource, Is Victim of National Neglect: Statement by Jeff Skelding, National Campaign Director, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition
• Press event speakers contact info
• Proceedings are available as .mp3 audio files:
• Introduction: Dave Ullrich, Executive Director, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
• Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry
• Mayor Gary Becker: City of Racine, Wisconsin
• Mayor Denis Lapointe: City of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec
• Jeff Skelding: Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition
• Q & A

Overview
The Great Lakes Commission in partnership with the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Cities Initiative and with support by the Joyce Foundation is conducting a 12-month study to identify local level investment in protection and restoration of the Great Lakes.

Funded by the Joyce Foundation, this project is an effort to continue the momentum of the U.S. based Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (GLRC)—a yearlong process whereby hundreds of public, private, citizen groups and tribes/First Nations from across the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes basin collaborated to produce a Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes in December, 2005. By assessing the level of investment from our region’s local governments in the restoration and protection of Great Lakes water resources, this project will help move the Regional Collaboration Strategy initiative into its next phase.

Additional Information
Survey facts including:

• List of survey respondents
• Survey Results Table
• Local Investment Fast Facts
• USA Survey expenditures
• Ontario Survey expenditures
• Quebec Survey Expenditures

Clean Water State Revolving Fund fact sheet
Press Release (English)
Press Release (French)