Featured Website: Huron-Erie Corridor Initiative

By its very nature, water swirls and ebbs and flows; what happens to one body affects another.

That’s the idea behind the Huron-Erie Corridor Initiative – an international partnership aimed at building the health of major waterways in Southeast Michigan, Ohio and Canada.

The partnership was formed in order to restore ecological function and build the environmental muscle of the Huron Erie ecosystem from southern Lake Huron to western Lake Erie. The main tenet behind the initiative is that building and maintaining a healthy aquatic ecosystem will in turn provide societal, economic, and environmental benefits to the Great Lakes region and throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Three reasons you should visit the HEC web site:

1. Chances are, this corridor affects you – either directly or indirectly. More than 5 million people live within an hour’s drive of the Corridor and it’s also the major source of drinking water for Michigan, Ohio and Ontario.
2. Knowledge. Conflicting uses of HEC waters for waste disposal, water withdrawals, shoreline development, shipping, recreation and fishing have resulted in a number of environmental changes to the system. The web portal outlines what’s being done to combat this.
3. It’s one of a kind. The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge – the first international refuge in North America – is located within the corridor. Islands, coastal wetlands, marshes, shoals, and riverfront lands are included in the 48 miles of Detroit River and western Lake Erie coasts.

See: Huron-Erie Corridor Initiative website

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