Water Quality & Waterways

• Issue Spotlight: Great Lakes Mapping

  (2026)

• Environmental Protection Agency Tracker

  (2025)

• NEMWI Releases Scorecard on State Legislature and Environmental Agencies PFAS Response

  (2024)

• Report: Congressional Oversight of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  (2023)

• Report: Lead Service Line Replacement Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  (2023)

• Northeast-Midwest Institute Releases New White Paper on the Potential of Public Banking as a Catalyst for Green Infrastructure and Investment

  (2019)

• Northeast-Midwest Institute Releases Report on Conservation Effectiveness in Watersheds in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

  (2019)

• NEMWI Releases Report on Lead Policies and Media Coverage Post-Flint

  (2018)

• NEMWI Releases New Study on the Cost of Nitrate Treatment

  (2018)

• NEMW Releases Response to the U.S. EPA Lead and Copper Rules Revisions White Paper

  (2016)

• NEMW Launches Safe Drinking Water Research and Policy Program

  (2016)

• Mississippi River Collaborative Calls on EPA to Step Up Efforts to Reduce Pollution in Mississippi River

  (2016)

• Study Evaluates Water Monitoring in the Susquehanna River Basin

  (2016)

• Clarifications Needed to Strengthen the Lead and Copper Rule Working Group’s Recommendations for Long Term Revisions to the Federal Lead and Copper Rule

  (2015)

• Great Ships Initiative: Land-Based Status Test of the JFE BallastAce Ballast Water Management System and Components at the GSI Testing Facility

  (2015)

• NEMWI Lake Erie Water Monitoring Study

  (2015)

• Great Ships Initiative: Land-Based Performance Evaluation in Ambient and Augmented Duluth-Superior Harbor Water of Eight Commercially Available Ballast Water Treatment System Filter Units

  (2014)

• Invasive Species: Harmful Microbes in Ballast Water: Protecting the Great Lakes Ecosystem

  (2013)

• Great Ships Initiative: Final Report of the Shipboard Testing of the Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) Ballast Water Treatment System Onboard the MV Indiana Harbor

  (2013)

• Great Ships Initiative: Final Report of Land-Based Freshwater Testing of a Ballast Water Treatment Involving Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl)

  (2012)

• The Northeast’s Transportation Climate Initiative

  (2012)

• Great Ships Initiative: Final Report of the Land-Based Freshwater Testing of the AlfaWall AB PureBallast® Ballast Water Management System

  (2011)

• Great Ships Initiative: Final Report of the Land-Based Freshwater Testing of the Lye (NaOH) Ballast Water Treatment System

  (2011)

• Great Ships Initiative: A Ballast Discharge Monitoring System for Great Lakes Relevant Ships: A Guidebook for Researchers, Ship Owners, and Agency Officials

  (2011)

• Great Ships Initiative: Report of the Land-Based Freshwater Testing of the Simens SiCURE™ Ballast Water Management System

  (2010)

• Innovative Financing for Great Lakes Environmental Restoration, Concepts for Tying Waterfront Development to Environmental Restoration and Funding the Non-Federal Match for Great Lakes Legacy Projects

  (2008)

• Great Ships Initiative: The Response of Zooplankton and Phytoplankton from the North American Great Lakes to Filtration (2007). Cangelosi A, Mays N, Balcer M, Reavie E, Reid D, Sturtevant R & Gao X. Harmful Algae; 6 ( iv): 547-566.

  (2007)

• Invasive Species: Great Ships for the Great Lakes? Commercial Vessels Free Of Invasive Species in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System. A Scoping Report for the Great Ships Initiative

  (2006)

• Large-Scale Demonstrations of Prospective Ballast Water Treatments Relevant to Seaway Size Commercial Ships: Disk Filtration and Ultraviolet Irradiation. Final Report to the Great Lakes Protection Fund

  (2005)

• Great Ships Initiative: Summary and Findings of the Ballast Discharge Monitoring Device Workshop

  (2005)

• Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration and the Federal Policy Process

  (2005)

• Great Ships Initiative: Sampling Approaches and Recommendations of the Great Lakes Ballast Technology Demonstration Project

  (2003)

• Filtration as a Ballast Water Treatment Measure (2002). In: Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe. Distribution, Impacts and Management (E Leppakoski, S Gollasch & S Olenin, eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.

  (2002)