The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Intercounty Drain Program Manager Mike Gregg is pleased to announce the selection of Joseph Brezvai as a project manager, effective Monday, June 27, 2022.
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Registration now open for the Virtual Great Lakes Water Infrastructure Conference!
Join the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) on May 10 and 11 for this free virtual conference focused on the water infrastructure challenges faced by the Great Lakes region and solutions to those challenges. Infrastructure is the unseen backbone supporting our modern lives, but investment has lagged nationwide and much of it is aging. The communities of the Great Lakes Basin face critical water infrastructure needs for rehabilitation and replacement. Shifting population patterns and the need for preparedness against man-made and natural threats place increasing demands on drinking water and wastewater utilities.
2022 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Funding Opportunity
Attached is an informational bulletin announcing fund availability for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). Approximately $41 million in federal funds will be available for eligible hazard mitigation activities in the state of Michigan. Extensive program details can be found in FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance Unified Guidance document (although this document is labeled “Fiscal Year 2015” guidance, it is the current version of the program guidance).
MIC Accepting Applications for Asset Management Champion Training
The Michigan Infrastructure Council (MIC) is accepting applications from a new cohort of leaders into the Asset Management (AM) Champion Program. This program will establish a network of talented individuals and organizations to help strengthen and “champion” best practice asset management across Michigan’s complex infrastructure environment. The AM Champion Program is a fast-paced and interactive training curriculum that combines asynchronous education, facilitated discussion, peer interactions, and industry learning into a professional certification from MIC. The program will run from April through June 2022 and will require approximately 25 hours to complete. If you are a local, regional, or state government employee, public-sector asset owner, or leader from an industry organization, please complete an application form. There were 78 graduates last year who provided excellent feedback -- 98% agreed they were ready to be AM Champions in their organization.
USACE & FEMA Announce National Levee Safety Program
USACE & FEMA are kicking off a National Levee Safety Program initiative to gain feedback from levee owners, operators, local governments, residents and other stakeholders on how to improve the management of levee systems across the nation. This is a separate effort from the USACE Levee Safety Program that manages permanent levees constructed by USACE.
Registration now open for the 2022 Michigan Environmental Compliance Conference!
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) will host the 2022 Michigan Environmental Compliance Conference (MECC) at the Suburban Showplace in Novi, Michigan on April 20 and 21. The MECC has been designed to help businesses, municipalities, and environmental professionals all across Michigan comply with their environmental requirements and incorporates an exhibitor showcase and several concurrent tracks covering introductory and advanced compliance topics.
MACDC Awards Program – Entry Forms Due November 1st
This is a reminder to submit your projects for MACDC's 2022 Innovation and Excellence Awards program.
The complete entry form and rules is available here.
Pre-application entry forms and fee are due November 1st and completed applications with narrative and photos are due December 1st.
Questions? Contact admin@macdc.us or call 517.484.9761.
Registration is now open for the 2021 Virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit!
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 Virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit taking place December 6-10! The goals of the Summit are to provide the most current and reliable science and policy, facilitate information sharing, and explore current and future research topics related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
MDARD Intercounty Drain Program News
For those who haven’t heard the Intercounty Drain Program has a new secretary replacing Peggy Snyder. Joy Myers joined the staff in late June and has been working side by side with Peggy the last several months as we train her for that position. Joy is now fully engaged and we’re pleased to have her on board. Joy has extensive administrative support experience coming from Higher Education and K-12. She worked for the University of Michigan as a secretary for over 17 years at a busy media relations office. She has also worked for several school districts including Los Alamos, NM and Los Olivos, CA assisting students with enrollment and handling student records. She served as coordinator for the California School Boards Association where she was in-charge of the Manual Maintenance division. In this position she coordinated all of the requests for policy updates from over 500 member districts throughout the state of California and trained new employees on policy manuals. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, riding bikes, traveling, reading, sewing and gardening.
EGLE requests input on lakes, rivers, and streams monitoring for 2022
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Water Resources Division (WRD) is soliciting monitoring recommendations for 2022 to support its Surface Water Quality Monitoring Strategy. Primary goals of the Strategy are to: